Worm ID

[wimby]

found this before lights on today

Thanks for any help
Kim

 

[MikeyZO]

looks like some sort of flat worm... Could be wrong though...

 

[Pedro Nuno Ferreira]

Hi
It looks like a Nemertean or Ribbon worm also here

Cheers
Pedro Nuno;-)

 

[wimby]

Thanks pedro I still have tolook through all that but . Those are some yukky looking worms LOL thanks for all the help

 

[m'akoyPINOY]

put it in a tequila bottle!:tongue1:

 

[Keith P]

"These are often long worms, the largest are well over 100 feet (30 m) long"

"They catch their prey with a long extensible proboscis that is often tipped with a venomous barb. They may eat crustaceans or various other worms."

So is this worm good or bad?

 

[wimby]

Yeah thats what I want to know good or bad? He is living in a cup. Just checked it still alive.

 

[Pedro Nuno Ferreira]

Hi
Assuming that in fact it is a ribbon worm, and I state what I wrote

It looks like a Nemertean or Ribbon worm also here

Try searching :google:by Ribbon Worms
Have a look here and here and here and some more here

Nemertea
...Most nemerteans are carnivorous and predatory, catching prey with their proboscis,[4] although some are scavengers and some are herbivores.[5] In some families, it is armed with a sharp stylet which may be poisonous, while those that lack the stylet often use a sticky secretion on the proboscis to entrap their prey. The proboscis is wrapped around the prey, which is normally other invertebrates such as crustaceans and annelids and can be many times larger than the nemertean itself, and the prey is then stabbed repeatedly with the stylet until dead.[6]. A few, such as Malacobdella, live parasitically in the mantle cavity of molluscs and live on the food filtered by their hosts [6]

...A ribbon worm's food consists of segmented worms and small crustaceans which are encountered and captured by trial and error. Whenever the worm is successful in this endeavor, the proboscis coils around the prey organism, and then is retracted to bring the food to the mouth. The digestive tube is straight and non-muscular, and movement of food in it occurs mainly by ciliary action. An anus is present at the posterior end.

Ribbon Worms ...The ribbon worm is noted for its proboscis (a cordlike organ extending from the head), often several times the length of the body, which it shoots out and wraps around prey. In some, the proboscis ends in a sharp stylet, a bristlelike organ through which the worm injects venom into its prey.

Now I suggest you study this information and look for more and ask specialists like for instance Dr. Ronald L. Shimek in his Blog, send him your photographs so that he has better ways/chances to identify.

Cheers
Pedro Nuno;-)

 

[wimby]

Ok will do Thanks You