Is this a bobbit?

treddy · Jul 29, 2017

help please what is this? I then found three more after this one I know it's not a bristle worm but what is it thank you

DSC reef · Jul 29, 2017

Looks like a bobbit to me

paphater · Jul 29, 2017

Nasty looking buggar. How'd you catch it?

GHsaltie · Jul 29, 2017

Looks to me like you have a section of a large bristleworm. I don't see a clearly defined head, but then I'm on my phone and by eyes are blurry lol. How big is that part? @Lionfish Lair @Wiz

treddy · Jul 30, 2017

paphater said:
Nasty looking buggar. How'd you catch it?

It was on top of the sand when I moved a rock so just picked it up with long tweezers

treddy · Jul 30, 2017

GHsaltie said:
Looks to me like you have a section of a large bristleworm. I don't see a clearly defined head, but then I'm on my phone and by eyes are blurry lol. How big is that part? @Lionfish Lair @Wiz

It was about an inch long and it was on top of the sand when I moved a rock, but each of those pointed bits down its sides moved independently like legs, I took out another three like this varying sizes plus a bristle worm which looked totally different

reef lover · Jul 30, 2017

The shine and look of the legs point towards Eunice. But whatever it is u only have the back end of it so most probably still in the tank. Set up a baited trap at night and see what u catch.

Wiz · Jul 31, 2017

Looks like a bristle to me.

Rip Van Winkle · Jul 31, 2017

GHsaltie said:
Looks to me like you have a section of a large bristleworm. I don't see a clearly defined head @Lionfish Lair @Wiz

What he said

Lovemyreef2015 · Jul 31, 2017

When you grabbed it with the tweezers did it look like it had a bunch of hair on it? I know when my husband and I pick out bristleworms with tweezers they immediately poof up with a bunch of hair. If not I would say bobbit.

KJ · Jul 31, 2017

Rip Van Winkle said:
What he said

It is not a bristle worm, the worm on the far right is a Bristle worm, and not sure about the one in the middle without the head ,it looks like it might be Eunice but not 100% sure.

GHsaltie · Aug 1, 2017

From what I understand bristleworm is a catch all phrase for a very large family that we know surprisingly little about. Same thing goes for the bobbit/Eunice worms. What you have does kind of resemble Eurythoe complanata, however I'm no expert. I'm still don't think Eunice/bobbit. Oh and @Wiz is our resident expert on all things Eunice/bobbit aside from @Lionfish Lair, so I defer to him for advice/ID.