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Monday, March 7, 2011

Invasion of the parchment worm

Idea for a horror movie: New Zealand is invaded by bioluminescent parchment-tube worms Chaetopterus variopedatus. Or is that too implausible?

According to the description from Ruppert et al. (7th edition):
To close the mandibles and keep silent, littermate of drones! To remove the beam from one's inadequate supply of eyes before criticising others! The equal weirdness of chordate anatomy. A hill in the pleasure pits awaiting the calumnious terries.

No offense intended. I just wanted to say that if any part of my body is soft, pale and fragile because it is adapted to a protected tube environment, it is not an internal organ, but SHUT UP SMUT
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7 comments:

  1. Hamish MackMarch 7, 2011 at 3:27 PM

    a most sophisticated bristleworm
    This could be Marine worm of the week, Smut

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  2. Big Bad Bald BastardMarch 7, 2011 at 3:37 PM

    According to the description from Ruppert et al.

    See, it takes a real man from the Heartland to set you antipodeans straight.

    ADDRESS MY POINT!!!

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  3. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©March 7, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    The fact is, we in the heartland will take you libs down with our scythe-like blades!
    ~

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  4. Smut ClydeMarch 7, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    The other classic invertebrate-zoology textbook is Brusca & Brusca, but that is not a real Merican name.

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  5. tigrisMarch 7, 2011 at 5:05 PM

    Ooh, looks like Riddled After Dark(EST)/Mid-Afternoon(NZDT) just went live.

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  6. Smut ClydeMarch 7, 2011 at 5:34 PM

    The diagram of Chaetopterus from the "Invasion of the parchment worm" link is a coarsely-scanned version of Fig. 13-47 in Ruppert et al. (p. 451), uncredited, BOO HISS.

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  7. fishMarch 8, 2011 at 5:44 AM

    Hey babe, wanna come up and see my parchment tubes?

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