Worm on sea cucumber - Gastrolepidia sp.

This worm species lives on sea cucumbers but we had never seen one living on Euapta godeffroi, a common, long tube-type cucumber that can be described as a thin casing filled with water that processes sand and with feeding tentacles at one end. The cucumber was at least 40cm (16 inches) long and the worm around an inch.

2 June 2014

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