Bobbit worm

CENTipede = ONE HUNDRED legs. Gross.

This post has been updated to reflect that this worm should be called the Sand Striker. Please refer to the following post in regards to the change https://www.deepseanews.com/?p=59047 Once upon a time in 1993, when I was imbibing my sophomore year at college in Australia – drinking in the knowledge, so to speak – I heard

Facial and body view of the predatory Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois), taken in 6 metres of water in Lembeh Strait

Whether in the crystal clear waters of the Caribbean or off the coast of Australia, some of the world's most beautiful oceans also contain the world's most nightmare-inducing creatures.

Meet the bobbit worm, probably the ocean's most disturbing predator. It digs itself into the sea floor, exposing a few inches of its body and senses any passing prey with its five antennas. Then, SNAP, catches the prey with its powerful mouth in such a speed. It could actually tear a fish into two.

Staying completely still among the colorful surroundings of a coral reef, the bobbit worm disguises itself as a harmless plant when it's on the hunt. This predator extends partway out of its burrow, until a tasty morsel wanders in range. Like no worm on land, this one strikes at prey with sharpened jaws, trapping and killing them in its scissor-like grip.Worm Hole: This worm usually makes its home by digging a vertical burrow in the sand between rocks or corals in a tropical reef. The burrow…

Bobbit worm images (Eunice aphroditois) - stock photos & facts showing this fierce underwater predator that can grow to nine feet long Scientific classification | Kingdom: Animalia > Phylum: Annelida > Class: Polychaeta > Order: Eunicida > Family: Eunicidae > Genus: Eunice > Species: E. aphroditois Binomial name | Eunice aphroditois The bobbit worm, Eunice aphroditois, is a ferocious underwater predatory polychaete worm that lives on the ocean floor at depths between 30 and 120 feet. Also…

Art illustration - Oceans & Seas - Bobbit worm: (Eunice aphroditois) Lives on the ocean floor, where he buries his body in a bed of sand, gravel, mud or coral, where he patiently waits for a stimulus on one of his five antennae, attacking when he detects a prey. Armed with sharp teeth, it is capable of attacking at such speeds that it cuts its prey in two. Although the worm hunts, it is omnivorous. it feeds on fish, squid, octopus, crustaceans and even small sharks like pin-dog.

Bobbit Worm

Bobbit Worm