A live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti. Its feathery appendages are called parapodia and carry the worm’s gills. Ekin Tilic ...

A live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti after the lead Alvin pilot, Bruce Strickrott of WHOI who helped discover it. Its feathery appendages are called ...

The worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti, has an elongated body that is flanked by a row of feathery, gill-tipped appendages called parapodia on either side, and Rouse said its sinuous swimming ...

Compared to most ragworms, Pectinereis strickrotti is unusual in several ways: it lives in the deep sea, whereas most of its evolutionary relatives inhabit shallower waters; its parapodia are covered ...

An unusual specimen of the sandworm, Nereis virens, possessed two closely-spaced rows of supernumerary parapodia on the ventral surface of the posterior one-third of the body. Serial transverse ...

These lettuce-like folds are actually fleshy protrusions known as parapodia, which are exceptionally frilly in this species. While it's not really a vegetable, the lettuce sea slug does know a bit ...

These strange worms are a type of polychaete worm that belong to the family Nereididae commonly known as clam worms. Polycheate worms are set apart from other marine worms by bristles (known as cheate ...