Polynoid Scaleworms

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Coral Sea, Duration 22 seconds, Shot includes Opheodesoma serpentina (Feather-mouth sea cucumber)

South Pacific Ocean, Shot at night, Duration 8 seconds

Polynoe squamata.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Asterophilia carlae is not the primary subject of the video clip; the primary subject is Opheodesoma serpentina (Feather-mouth sea cucumber). Coral Sea, Duration 27 seconds

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 12 seconds

Closeup showing dorsal scales that overlie the organism's dorsal surface. Sexes are separate, and fertilization is external.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

Coral Sea, Duration 19 seconds, Shot includes Opheodesoma serpentina (Feather-mouth sea cucumber)

South Pacific Ocean, Duration 13 seconds

Coral Sea, Duration 18 seconds

These free-living polychaetes have eighteen pairs of overlapping scales. Sometimes they live commensally in the tubes of other polychaetes or in moon snail shells occupied by hermit crabs.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.

All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.