#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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today's invertebrate...............spirobranchus giganteus

it's these guys!! no glompmas is complete without some good old spirobranchus am I right?? with their fancy palps and fancy cartilage hats, these funky fellas always take the spotlight at any party they visit! especially those that allow usage of fermented nectar....

something else that everyone likes about these critters is the little noises they make! all the wet grunts, wheezes and chirps they make at night always allow for a steady stream of beautiful, relaxing white noise that's sure to make even the most active and energetic amongst you sleep in an instant! and then they use their fancy palps to clean your brain while you're dreaming, to ensure that you'll never get a dream where you ride a giant disembodied talking nose, ever!! how brilliant!!!!

.......jollyness rating: 98.9% 💉

I stole these images from the wikipedia article for spirobranchus giganteus

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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

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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 !!

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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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Ursactis

Ursactis — рід червів з типу Кільчасті черви (Annelida) відомий з кембрійських сланцевих відкладів Берджесс. Типовий вид — Ursactis comosa. Більшість зразків походять з Токумм-Крік, нового сланцевого родовища Берджесс у північній частині Національного парку Кутеней, Британська Колумбія, Канада.

Повний текст на сайті "Вимерлий світ":

https://extinctworld.in.ua/ursactis/