Geoff Read
@annelidsci.bsky.social
Marine annelid taxonomist, Aotearoa
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Geoff Read
@annelidsci.bsky.social
· Apr 4
The journey to discover New Zealand marine annelids starts here: niwa.co.nz/biodiversity... Kingdom Animalia, phylum Annelida (bristleworms & kin). Chapt 18, in Kelly et al, Dec 2023. Marine Biota of Aotearoa New Zealand
One day we might learn what the "tubeworms" were that formed this convenient refuge for fish. They are identified only as a Lamellibrachia.
Congregation of cusk-eels (Genypterus chilensis, Ophidiiformes) at a deep-sea methane seep off Chile
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October 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
One day we might learn what the "tubeworms" were that formed this convenient refuge for fish. They are identified only as a Lamellibrachia.
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📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026
#IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida
polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...
#IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida
polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026
#IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida
polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...
#IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida
polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...
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Palola worms! is for EATIN'! #wormwednesday Indonesia www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Genus Palola
Palola from Pulau Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, ID on February 4, 2018 at 10:47 AM by littleoceankid
www.inaturalist.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Palola worms! is for EATIN'! #wormwednesday Indonesia www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Meet Spinther bohnorum n. sp. Tilic & Rouse 2025 ✨— a tiny but stunning worm!
Spinther species are enigmatic worms that always seem to dwell on sponges, but we still don’t know exactly where they belong on the annelid tree of life. A shiny small mystery wrapped in glitter, basically. 😅🪱
Spinther species are enigmatic worms that always seem to dwell on sponges, but we still don’t know exactly where they belong on the annelid tree of life. A shiny small mystery wrapped in glitter, basically. 😅🪱
October 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Meet Spinther bohnorum n. sp. Tilic & Rouse 2025 ✨— a tiny but stunning worm!
Spinther species are enigmatic worms that always seem to dwell on sponges, but we still don’t know exactly where they belong on the annelid tree of life. A shiny small mystery wrapped in glitter, basically. 😅🪱
Spinther species are enigmatic worms that always seem to dwell on sponges, but we still don’t know exactly where they belong on the annelid tree of life. A shiny small mystery wrapped in glitter, basically. 😅🪱
Whoa indeed! What life form is that? #WormWednesday
Whoa, check that out! I figure it's a worm, but I've never seen tubes like this coming off the seafloor. Wait for it... @nautiluslive.org dive L1008 #CookIslands #MarineLife
October 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Whoa indeed! What life form is that? #WormWednesday
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SO MANY PATTERN! from India! Hesione ceylonica! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Hesione ceylonica
Hesione ceylonica from India on October 17, 2024 at 04:40 PM by Sachin Rane🐾
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September 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
SO MANY PATTERN! from India! Hesione ceylonica! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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LONG ARM= genus Longibrachium! Wotta critter! Wotta set of prongs! #wormwednesday Indonesia www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Longibrachium arariensis
Longibrachium arariensis from Komodo, Komodo, Manggarai, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia on August 28, 2015 at 06:40 PM by Mark Rosenstein
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October 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
LONG ARM= genus Longibrachium! Wotta critter! Wotta set of prongs! #wormwednesday Indonesia www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Nightmare fuel for corals: The Bearded Fireworm 😱🔥🪱🪸 #beardedfireworm #fireworm #nightmarefuel #corallivore #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
September 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Nightmare fuel for corals: The Bearded Fireworm 😱🔥🪱🪸 #beardedfireworm #fireworm #nightmarefuel #corallivore #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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Usually, when something or someone touches a Christmas tree worm's feathery radioles, it would immediately retract back into its hole.
But not blennies and gobies - the worms consider those fishes as homies who are allowed to touch their radioles.
#Invertebrate 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But not blennies and gobies - the worms consider those fishes as homies who are allowed to touch their radioles.
#Invertebrate 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Usually, when something or someone touches a Christmas tree worm's feathery radioles, it would immediately retract back into its hole.
But not blennies and gobies - the worms consider those fishes as homies who are allowed to touch their radioles.
#Invertebrate 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But not blennies and gobies - the worms consider those fishes as homies who are allowed to touch their radioles.
#Invertebrate 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Porcelain crabs are the icon of "fooled ya, not crab". But Eulenaios cometes goes further by living inside a worm tube!
(Actually, several true and false crabs, and a second worm, are all up in these tubes wtf) 🦀🧪🦑 #InverteFest
peerj.com/articles/2930/
(Actually, several true and false crabs, and a second worm, are all up in these tubes wtf) 🦀🧪🦑 #InverteFest
peerj.com/articles/2930/
August 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Porcelain crabs are the icon of "fooled ya, not crab". But Eulenaios cometes goes further by living inside a worm tube!
(Actually, several true and false crabs, and a second worm, are all up in these tubes wtf) 🦀🧪🦑 #InverteFest
peerj.com/articles/2930/
(Actually, several true and false crabs, and a second worm, are all up in these tubes wtf) 🦀🧪🦑 #InverteFest
peerj.com/articles/2930/
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Sad news that Dr Janet (Bradford) Grieve passed away on Saturday. She was a world expert in Copepods, a pioneering woman in biological oceanography in NZ and first women to lead a marine research voyage in nz with her first voyage in 1967. She was a role model, a mentor and a leader.
Janet Grieve - Wikipedia
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August 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Sad news that Dr Janet (Bradford) Grieve passed away on Saturday. She was a world expert in Copepods, a pioneering woman in biological oceanography in NZ and first women to lead a marine research voyage in nz with her first voyage in 1967. She was a role model, a mentor and a leader.
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Wow. Scale worm? OP reads "Plankton fr the coast of Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Body length 0.7mm. Perhaps a polychaete larva? It has a distinctive transparent disc-like structure, .. Its eyes are cute too." via @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9 #wormwednesday
August 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Wow. Scale worm? OP reads "Plankton fr the coast of Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Body length 0.7mm. Perhaps a polychaete larva? It has a distinctive transparent disc-like structure, .. Its eyes are cute too." via @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9 #wormwednesday
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Remember, the next Polychaete Conference #IPC15 is coming to Frankfurt in 2026! Make sure you save the dates - and in the meantime check out the website for the polychaete-association.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Remember, the next Polychaete Conference #IPC15 is coming to Frankfurt in 2026! Make sure you save the dates - and in the meantime check out the website for the polychaete-association.com
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What did bone worms eat before whales? Marine reptiles!
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons | Natural History Museum
Bone-eating worms have been cleaning up the ocean floor for over 100 million years.
www.nhm.ac.uk
July 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What did bone worms eat before whales? Marine reptiles!
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
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Hey Star Trek nerds, FYI there's Gagh IRL, and they're called palolo.
They're polychaete worms, or more specifically the detached, self-propelled reproductive bits of Palola viridis
#Invertebrate 🧪
- www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palola_...
They're polychaete worms, or more specifically the detached, self-propelled reproductive bits of Palola viridis
#Invertebrate 🧪
- www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palola_...
July 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hey Star Trek nerds, FYI there's Gagh IRL, and they're called palolo.
They're polychaete worms, or more specifically the detached, self-propelled reproductive bits of Palola viridis
#Invertebrate 🧪
- www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palola_...
They're polychaete worms, or more specifically the detached, self-propelled reproductive bits of Palola viridis
#Invertebrate 🧪
- www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palola_...
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One of my favorites! by Alexander Semenov #worldpolychaeteday
July 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
One of my favorites! by Alexander Semenov #worldpolychaeteday
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My last echinoblog post on #worldpolychaeteday but it includes a retrospective from 3 years of posts and swimming polychaete love! echinoblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/poly...
#PolychaeteDay 2018 Edition: Swimming Polychaete Worms!
Photo by Karen Osborn So, Every July 1st is the, now posthumous, birthday of NMNH curator Kristian Fauchald, who was one of the most pr...
echinoblog.blogspot.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My last echinoblog post on #worldpolychaeteday but it includes a retrospective from 3 years of posts and swimming polychaete love! echinoblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/poly...
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A reminder that there are in the neighborhood of 90-100? species of Eunice! so there's MOAR than E. aphroditois (aka the Sand Striker or the Bobbit worm) a LOT more! Here's Eunice macrobranchia from Pacific Mexico.. its PURPLE! #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Eunice macrobranchia
Eunice macrobranchia from Circuito Don Julio Berdegué Aznar, Mazatlán, SIN, MX on March 19, 2021 at 08:15 PM by mariana_1234
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July 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A reminder that there are in the neighborhood of 90-100? species of Eunice! so there's MOAR than E. aphroditois (aka the Sand Striker or the Bobbit worm) a LOT more! Here's Eunice macrobranchia from Pacific Mexico.. its PURPLE! #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Sand Mason worm from Ireland! (Lanice conchilega) #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Sand Mason Worm (Lanice conchilega)
Sand Mason Worm from Inner Lees on April 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM by philwilkinson
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July 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sand Mason worm from Ireland! (Lanice conchilega) #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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It's #InternationalPolychaeteDay, and we've got something for you to celebrate. ❤️
Flame on: The vibrant red gossamer worm is the race car of the deep sea: youtu.be/PII8AvmEvnE?...
Flame on: The vibrant red gossamer worm is the race car of the deep sea: youtu.be/PII8AvmEvnE?...
July 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's #InternationalPolychaeteDay, and we've got something for you to celebrate. ❤️
Flame on: The vibrant red gossamer worm is the race car of the deep sea: youtu.be/PII8AvmEvnE?...
Flame on: The vibrant red gossamer worm is the race car of the deep sea: youtu.be/PII8AvmEvnE?...
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I never shared this video of the nereid worm I saw last year because we didn't have video here then, but now you can see this fabulous worm in action for #InternationalPolychaeteDay!
July 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I never shared this video of the nereid worm I saw last year because we didn't have video here then, but now you can see this fabulous worm in action for #InternationalPolychaeteDay!
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33 years of NIWA - national institute of water and Atmospheric research, Aotearoa/New Zealand ended today - renamed and reformed with the formation of the new Earth Science institute. Here is a video of some of the archive footage- lots of familiar faces from the 12.5 years that I worked there.
33 YEARS OF NIWA
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July 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
33 years of NIWA - national institute of water and Atmospheric research, Aotearoa/New Zealand ended today - renamed and reformed with the formation of the new Earth Science institute. Here is a video of some of the archive footage- lots of familiar faces from the 12.5 years that I worked there.
#WormWednesday
Review of extensive genome-wide scrambling in clitellate annelids genomes doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Unfortunately #closedaccess
Review of extensive genome-wide scrambling in clitellate annelids genomes doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Unfortunately #closedaccess
June 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#WormWednesday
Review of extensive genome-wide scrambling in clitellate annelids genomes doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Unfortunately #closedaccess
Review of extensive genome-wide scrambling in clitellate annelids genomes doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Unfortunately #closedaccess
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Deadly algal bloom in South Australia’s Coorong an environmental ‘eye opener’, ecologist says #Climate
Deadly algal bloom in South Australia’s Coorong an environmental ‘eye opener’, ecologist says
Among the dead in the internationally significant wetland are estuarine snails, shore crabs, baby flounder and ‘a thick stew of polychaete worms’ after high tides swept the algae
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Deadly algal bloom in South Australia’s Coorong an environmental ‘eye opener’, ecologist says #Climate
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For #FossilFriday meet a fossil worm. Kenostrychus is a bristle worm that lived 425 million years ago, and was preserved in three dimensions in volcanic ash. What you see below is a 3D reconstruction created by grinding it away, photographing it, and creating a 3D computer model.
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
June 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
For #FossilFriday meet a fossil worm. Kenostrychus is a bristle worm that lived 425 million years ago, and was preserved in three dimensions in volcanic ash. What you see below is a 3D reconstruction created by grinding it away, photographing it, and creating a 3D computer model.
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky
⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky