#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...............osedax mucofloris

Who lives on a dead body under the deep?

Osedax mucofloris!

Pale and sickly how glorious is she!

Osedax mucofloris!

With tendrils of snot and a body of germs....

Osedax mucofloris!

And many a male that deposit their sperm!

Osedax mucofloris!

glorpiness rating: porifera bobert geometry trousers

according to this article the image comes from The Natural History Museum

laugh

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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! 🌧️

[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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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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Unidentified life form.

Upon first seeing these 2021, I believed they were a species of flatworm. I was told on iNaturalist that there weren't any flatworms which matched description, and that the specimens had slight signs of segmentation (thus Annelida). As it currently stands, I have seen these creatures numerous times, but have yet to find any sort of identification.

Brief description: These are benthic creatures, residing in burrows I've mainly witnessed further up the shore in mangrove environments. They remain in their burrows until there is a few centimetres of water level, after which they leave (or a part of them leaves) the burrow to feed on sediment. They sift through the sediment, possibly collecting sediment on the top-facing surface of the body/appendage to take back into the burrow. I typically find these things covered in sediment, and they leave very distinct trails in the sand after feeding. I have only come across them in Bowen (the beach at the giant mango), though I find it doubtful that Bowen is their only location.

08/09/23

10/09/21 - Past photos showcasing trails left after feeding.

QLD:BRB - Bowen, mangrove beach