🪱Ekin Tilic
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curator of all things wormy and spiny at Senckenberg. #polychaetes #echinoderms I've got a thing for bristles and biodiversity. 🧬🪱
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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. 😅🪱
I would say that’s a less accurate name similar to “whiskers” - they are homologous to palps.
September 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I would say that’s a less accurate name similar to “whiskers” - they are homologous to palps.
1: palps
2: the second pair of tentacular cirri or cirriform appendages. Also called whiskers ( which I think is pretty cute )
So - what’s labeled in the book is the internal chaeta/acicula. Not the whole structure. Developmentally it’s a modification of the second segment.
Hope this helps ;)
2: the second pair of tentacular cirri or cirriform appendages. Also called whiskers ( which I think is pretty cute )
So - what’s labeled in the book is the internal chaeta/acicula. Not the whole structure. Developmentally it’s a modification of the second segment.
Hope this helps ;)
September 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
1: palps
2: the second pair of tentacular cirri or cirriform appendages. Also called whiskers ( which I think is pretty cute )
So - what’s labeled in the book is the internal chaeta/acicula. Not the whole structure. Developmentally it’s a modification of the second segment.
Hope this helps ;)
2: the second pair of tentacular cirri or cirriform appendages. Also called whiskers ( which I think is pretty cute )
So - what’s labeled in the book is the internal chaeta/acicula. Not the whole structure. Developmentally it’s a modification of the second segment.
Hope this helps ;)
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Prince Albert’s Sea Daisy doesn’t look like your typical starfish. It is a delicate, flower-shaped sea star with an unusual life style, living on sunken wood or tube worms 🧪 lifewatch.be/en/worms-top...
March 19, 2024 at 4:44 AM
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Thank you 🙏🏻☺️ all worms are quality worms 🪱✨😜
March 8, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Thank you 🙏🏻☺️ all worms are quality worms 🪱✨😜