Re: Hairy 'worm' from Brisbane
June 5, 2002
From: Kerri
Hi Bill,
Thanks for replying so quickly to my "hairy worm " query!! I've had a look at the Sea Hares but they're not the ones!! I've no idea why i'm so facinated with them (morbid curiosity perhaps) but I'll try again.
When I mentioned a segmented body I should have said the underbelly looked like a witchety grub. We were near a rock wall in about 4 metres of water. The bottom was a sludgy sand /mud mixture but there were mangroves nearby. We were getting a lot of small bream on our lines, but they weren't interested in eating the hairy worms either. When we tried to get the "hairy worms" off the lines they curled up into a ball like an echidna, hairy bit outwards. Hope you can help
Kerri
kerrilambert@optusnet.com.au
Lambert, K., 2002 (Jun 5) Re: Hairy 'worm' from Brisbane. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/7161Dear Kerri,
Since posting your message I have had a couple of messages [one from Darwin and one from California suggesting you furry animals are indeed worms - polychaete worms, a suggestion which I fully agree with. As a fisherperson I am sure you are familiar with segmented 'beachworms' which are a much more elongate version of a 'polychaete worm' than the ones you encountered in the Brisbane River.
Cheers,
Bill Rudman
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