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The film seems to show a nemertea, or ribbon worm. The animals usually live under the sea, where they can grow to a huge size, but sometimes make their way up onto cold and wet parts of the land.
Ribbon worm, any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called Nemertinea, or Rhynchocoela), which includes mainly free-living forms but also a few parasites of crustaceans ...
The new species that was first spotted during sport dives at Ría de Arosa, Spain, belongs to the phylum Nemertea, a group of predatory worms that use venom to immobilize their prey. It has been ...
Originally posted to Facebook, Jian’s video shows a green pulsating worm-like creature inching it’s way along damp cement, pausing to viscerally eject a long tendril of pink goo. https://www ...
They are related to snails and clams (collectively called mollusks), bristleworms, earthworms, and leeches (collectively called annelids), and ribbon worms (nemertea). But their precise position ...
The phylum Nemertea, commonly known as ribbon worms, has long presented taxonomic challenges due to their morphological similarities and cryptic diversity. Recent advances in molecular ...
Dr Tina Skinner from Queensland University told Yahoo News Australia that while she is not sure of the exact species, it is likely a ribbon worm — known as Nemertea. "It looks like a ribbon worm ...