#Annelida

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I think this is the first time I've made furry ocs that are fully mine and not a design for an existing character. I will make more but for now, have a caecilian libarian (unnamed rn, he/him) and his bobbit worm college medical student friend (she/her her name is mosiac also)

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Photos thanks to Oceana & Scuba!

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Annelida is the only one of my Palmettos who got the forehead patch like their mom, Best Donut.

Here's Best Donut on her 'gotcha day' for comparison:

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Phylum Round 3

Annelida: Segmented Worms. This group includes earthworms, leeches, and many classes under the umbrella of “polychaete”. This diverse phylum encompasses deposit feeders (eating dirt), detritivores, scavengers, deadly ambush predators, filter feeders, parasites, herbivores, and more. They are broadly defined by their repeating body segments and parapodia, which are nubby appendages used for both movement and breathing. Some have curved jaws for catching prey or scraping detritus off of rocks, while others have wide, elaborate, brightly colored feather-like fans for filter feeding. While able to crawl freely, a majority of marine Annelids spend most of their time in self-built tubes or burrows. Among their many important functions, they play a key role in mixing soil/sediment, breaking down decaying organic matter, and providing a key food source to countless other animals.

Cnidaria: Jellyfish, anemones, corals, box jellies, and hydroids. They have a gelatinous body with radial symmetry, a decentralized nervous system, and tentacles surrounding a simple mouth. The defining feature of this phylum are their cnidocytes, or stinging cells. There are two different body plans of the Cnidaria; an immobile “polyp” attached to a surface, or a free-living “medusa” which can swim or drift in the water column. Many polyp Cnidarians, such as corals, live in colonies. Some corals build reefs which serve as habitat for other animals. Free-living medusa Cnidarians must return to the seafloor in a polyp-like stage as a part of their life cycle.

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A feather duster worm (Sabellidae sp.) in Gozo, Malta

by Silke Baron

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Candy striped polychaete :3 (he/him)

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14/09/23 - Syllidae sp.

14/09/23 - Annelida sp.

14/09/23 - Unidentified

14/09/23 - Annelida sp.

14/09/23 - Unidentified

14/09/23 - Annelida sp.

Marine worms collected from tidepools

14/09/23

QLD:CQC - Yeppoon, tidepools

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spring means warm and wet which means bugs on campus. foot for scale on the earthworm because it was fucking Huge

[patheticmosasaur1]

iharodihggnik sillysimar..............etarbetrevni s'yadot

ereh neeb ev'uoy ecnis elihw a neeb dna ,gnol neeb syawla s'ti

wena emoceb ot ,eno emoceb dna esuf ot rehtohcae gnikees ,thgin eht ni yalp dna worg dna yad eht ni eid dna worg sliartne rieht ,sedisni nwo rieht ta ,snagro ruoy fo traeh eht ekil ,purys hguoroht dna kciht a ot nika yaw a ni tsomla ,sesnes ruoy htiw laed dluow ti taht sa ro ,flesruoy ot ro uoy ot tnatropmi ton era yeht sa ,meht deciton uoy evah won ylno tey dna ,ereht neeb syawla ev'yeht .si tnemtnioppa ruoy nehw uoy llet dna ,emit ruoy ta tniop iharodihggnik sillysimar lliw emit hcihw ta ,sllaw eht dnuora dna dnuora sekat ti tniop hcihw ta ,6 ralugerri na ta desu ro ot deretla eb ydaerla nac tub ,5 ta ylesicerp er'uoy

ti ssentiw ot ereht eb syawla lliw iharodihggnik sillysimar dna ,eb lliw syawla ti sa ,sah syawla ti sa ,no sevom emit taht syekcihood/sbobamagniht hcus htiw si ti

!senilopmart ekil yeht :gnitar sseniprolg

(ti wollof retteb I os iharodihggnik sillysimar fo egami yreve ylbaborp sniatnoc repap siht tub ti dnatsrednu yllaer t'nod I . ygniht thgirypoc siht knil ot evah osla I. yrevocsid sti no repap siht morf segami rof secruos)

the worm labeled B in the second image is not ramisyllis kingghidorahi btw. it's ramisyllis multicaudata!

also the copyright thingy says I have to write credits for authors but I'm very confused about that because the paper has a lot of authors, so do I have to write all of them? if so please tell me. for now I'll link the paper and creative licence (they won't be flipped like the other text)

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The rain brings friends 🪱🌧️

I moved as many off the pavement as I could:)

Watch your step! If you can’t move them, at least don’t smoosh them!

Moving them to a grass or dirt patch is a nice thing to do:)

When worms are on pavement they can dry out or get smooshed ☹️

They come out and move around when it’s wet because it’s easier for them to stay moisturized 🪱

Safe travels, worms! 🌧️

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Giovanni. (He/him)

Hirudo verbana, anypony? Paired with Dandy + other doodles/ocs by my wonderful partner Rainbow.

Original design by Venet on toyhouse !!

[omg-snakes]

Annelida is one of my 2023 holdbacks. I love that her terminal scale on her tail is one of her Palmetto spots!

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Phylum Round 2

Annelida: Segmented Worms. This group includes earthworms, leeches, and many classes under the umbrella of "polychaete". This diverse phylum encompasses deposit feeders (eating dirt), detritivores, scavengers, deadly ambush predators, filter feeders, parasites, herbivores, and more. They are broadly defined by their repeating body segments and parapodia, which are nubby appendages used for both movement and breathing. Some have curved jaws for catching prey or scraping detritus off of rocks, while others have wide, elaborate feather-like fans for filter feeding. While able to crawl freely, a majority of marine Annelids spend most of their time in self-built tubes or burrows. Among their many important functions, they play a key role in mixing soil/sediment, breaking down decaying organic matter, and providing a key food source to countless other animals.

Cycliophora: An incredibly specialized phylum, the Cycliophorans consist of a single genus. These animals live exclusively on the mouthparts of lobsters. Yes, all Cycliophorans. This is considered a commensal relationship, as the lobster is not harmed by the Cycliophorans' presence. This phylum has an interesting reproductive strategy involving cloned dwarf versions of the male, embryos that drain all nutrients from the mother, and larvae that must be strong swimmers to hopefully re-colonize the host lobster's new exoskeleton whenever it molts.

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A redworm (Eisenia fetida) in Denmark

by Tina Ellegaard Poulsen

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As a social species, the way humans interact with each other are vast. However, they can rarely hold a candle to some of the bizarre ways creature of the deep ocean interact with their mates.

This is the zombie worm (Osedax) also known as the boneworm or snot worm. This odd creature sustains itself by making use of an often untapped source of nutrients - bones! This polychaete worm secretes an acid from their skin to break down the fat within fallen whale skeletons in order to feed symbiotic bacteria within their bodies.

What makes this animal even more interesting is the extreme form of polygamy they engage in. For years after their discovery human scientists were perplexed by the fact that all collected zombie worm specimens were female, eventually it was discovered that the microscopic males were living within the tissues of the 2-7cm females. Females often housed multiple mates, up to 111 'tenants' have been recorded within one female!