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sealord > Guernsey marine worms > scale worm Harmothoe impar 29-661 smg
sealord > Dr. Mary Petersen, Scholar in Residence, at the Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, Maine USA kindly identified this polychaete worm as Flabelligera affinis. This worm was first described by Sars in 1828. File No. 16-531 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Guernsey marine worms > terebellid worm under boulder BG 170407 5-895 smg
sealord > This scaleworm with 15 pairs of scales (elytra) along the dorsal surface was unearthed from damp sand by bait digger Sam Robins on the 20th March 2007. This scaleworm was buried in the beach in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. File No. BG 200307 26-882 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This polychaete was discovered in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast during a low spring tide on April 17, 2007. In April 2007 I contacted polychaete specialists on the annelid email list - http://www.annelida.net/ to identify this species for me. Dr. Mary E. Petersen of the Darling Marine Center in Maine; Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri in Italy; Dr. Daniel Martin, Director, Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes (CSIC) in Spain; Guillermo Ruiz Cancino in Mexico; Dr. Salma Shalla based in the Isle of Man; and Joana Zanol in Washington, D.C. wrote to tell me it was the eunicid, Lysidice ninetta. Dr. Mary Petersen wrote "Lysidice ninetta appears to be the only UK eunicid with three antennae, no dorsal cirri on the apodous segment and the color pattern shown. Both the reddish anterior segments with fine white spots and the pale (white?) ring on chaetiger 2 should be diagnostic." Dr. Daniela Iraci Sareri wrote "Of Lysidice collaris Grube, 1870; Lysidice margaritacea Claparede, 1868; and Lysidice ninetta Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833, L. collaris and L. margaritacea are warm-water species mainly recorded in Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea (lessepsian migrants) with the second less frequent than the other. Moreover L. ninetta is easy distinguishable from L. collaris because characterized by a white bar on the fourth setiger." PhD candidate Joana Zanol wrote "The question about how many species of Lysidice are there in the English Channel is a tricky one. Around 30 species of Lysidice have been described for the whole world, but most have been synonymized so only the names collaris and ninetta are being used around the world. Most specimens in the English Channel are probably identified as Lysidice ninetta . Lysidice ninetta is a pretty close identification for your specimen and English Channel specimens in general because the type specimens were from the Chausey Islands. Lysidice collaris type specimens were from the Red Sea." Guillermo Ruiz Cancino wrote that "Lysidice ninneta Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833, is cosmopolitan, nevertheless recent studies have demonstrated that it can be a complex of species and not to be a single species." Dr. Daniel Martin based in Spain wrote "your worm seems clearly to be Lysidice ninneta. This was the most currently cited species in Mediterranean waters, where often two colour patterns were distinguished. I was able to identify two different species. The reddish one with a whitish collar effectively corresponded to L. ninetta, but the pale brownish one was L. collaris Grube, 1870. Both were equally frequent and shared simultaneously the same habitats (in my case, calcareous algae aggregates)." File No. 170407 25-895 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Guernsey marine worms > ribbon worm egg case BG 180407 8072 smg
sealord > Sam Robins holding the polychaete worm, Marphysa sanguinea, called verm in Guernsey, which was dug up from the shore of Belle Greve Bay on 10 February 2005. These worms make excellent angling bait. They grow to a length of 60 cm. File No. 100205 657 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > This amazing terebellid worm, the sand mason, Lanice conchilega, is just what its common name suggests. It builds a tube out of whole, and individual pieces of, mollusc shells and grains of sand. The worm's glue used to attach grains of sand together must be strong to withstand the force of water that rushes over the top of the tube with its projections of fine threads of glued sand grains. The top of the tube of this sand mason was photographed on the lower shore of the beach in Belle Greve Bay on 28 April 2006. File No. 280406 15 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
sealord > Guernsey recreational anglers use a fork to dig for this large polychaete worm in the family eunicidae. Locally called Verm, Marphysa sanguinea, grows to a length of 60 cm. It lives in muddy gravel which is a common substrate in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. File No. 5-536 ©RLLord fishinfo@guernsey.net
scale worm Harmothoe impar 29-661 smg
Guernsey marine worms > scale worm Harmothoe impar 29-661 smg
scale worm Harmothoe impar 29-661 smg
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