Priapulid Worm

Eyes Under Puget SoundThis species image was collected from Puget Sound sediments and photographed by the Washington State Department of Ecologys Marine Sediment Monitoring Team. For more information about this teams work visit: www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/psamp/index.htm.Cant get enough benthos? Check out our Eyes Under Puget Sound Critter of the Month species profile blogs at bit.ly/critterofthemonth

Description: Svenska: Priapulus caudatus (Lamarck 1816). Date: 25 June 2015. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ecologywa/29953420843/. Author: EcologyWA.

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Description: English: Priapulid worm Priapulus caudatus in a Petri dish. The specimen was found in the intertidal of the Russian coast of the Barents Sea. Русский: Приапулида Priapulus caudatus в чашке Петри. Особь найдена в приливно-отливной зоне на российском побережье Баренцева моря. Date: 20 September 2004. Source: kindly granted by the author. Author: Shunkina Ksenia.

Description: English: Adult specimen of the penis worm Priapulus caudatus. Date: 17 February 2012, 14:49:19. Source: Own work. Author: Bruno C. Vellutini. Camera location58° 14′ 59.19″ N, 11° 26′ 45.06″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 58.249774; 11.445849. Collected by the Hejnol Group in the Sven Lovén Centre Station at Kristineberg, Sweden. Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. :. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue.

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Image of live molting worm. Old cuticle can be seen peeling off body and tail.

This animal, as with the one photographed molting, was photographed alive during the course of a 3 month lab experiment. Darker covering of the tail is the old cuticle. This animal has nearly completed molting.

Live adult, recently molted with extended tail, total length ~150 mm.