Species ID?

[AydenLincoln]

I saw this photo in a Facebook group and I was hoping @ISpeakForTheSeas could tell me what it is? No one on Facebook seemed to know.

 

[tzabor10]

Looks a bit like a segmented worm.

 

[BubblesandSqueak]

not a bristle?

 

[AydenLincoln]

Looks a bit like a segmented worm.

Yes it does. I wonder what kind. I don’t think it’s any kind of bristle.

 

[AydenLincoln]

It doesn’t really have bristles like a traditional bristleworm does…it also appears mainly smooth. It’s so interesting and I’ve never seen anything like it online in any forums or in person.

 

[jag10016]

Segment Worm

 

[PharmrJohn]

Maybe a Polychaete?

 

[Provate]

I saw this photo in a Facebook group and I was hoping @ISpeakForTheSeas could tell me what it is? No one on Facebook seemed to know.

That sure looks like a segmented worm.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

I saw this photo in a Facebook group and I was hoping @ISpeakForTheSeas could tell me what it is? No one on Facebook seemed to know.

Pics from the top would have been helpful in this case, but that's a Hesionid worm, likely from the taxonomic subfamily Hesioninae, though I haven't looked into the other subfamilies/genera in the family to say for certain.

To clarify, though, it is a kind of bristleworm (Polychaete) - you can see the soft, stringy little bristles kind of drooping from the parapodia in the first pic - and it should be harmless/beneficial.

 

[Borat]

I recognised it 100% - it's a p*ssworm