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By TechThop Team
Posted on: 06 Aug, 2022
A bizarre seafloor creature with luminous orange, spaghetti-like tentacles has just been seen in a recently released video clip, which shows the creature exhibiting its weird traits.
An unusual pom-pom-shaped creature, the polychaete belongs to a group of segmented marine worms known as spaghetti worms.
As Monterey Bay Aquarium researchers explored the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico, they captured footage of the pasta-mimicking worm using a remotely controlled vehicle.
World Polychaete Day was celebrated with a video on MBARI's YouTube channel on 1 July. The genus Biremis contains this particular spaghetti worm species, but the name is yet to be officially given.
The creature has no eyes or gills and feeds on organic detritus, also referred to as marine snow, using its colorful tentacles.
A spaghetti worm usually lives in burrows or tunnels under the seafloor, but only pokes its noodle-like tentacles into the water to catch food. MBARI says that this Biremis worm lives above ground and swims through the water or crawls along the seafloor to find food sources.
The second group of MBARI researchers first detected the spaghetti worm species in the Gulf of California in 2003, using a different ROV. Scientists are still working on naming the species nearly two decades after the first sighting.
While giving a species its name would seem straightforward, it involves a lot of effort to collect specimens, examine key features, sequence DNA, and assign a scientific name,' MBARI representatives said.
As of yet, it is unclear exactly how deep a worm such as this can live, but a majority of sightings have taken place below 6,560 feet (2,000 meters) beneath the surface, according to MBARI.
The spaghetti worm illustrates how little scientists understand about deep-sea species and their ecosystems.
The continued study of the deep ocean and its creatures is vital, especially since deep-sea ecosystems are being degraded by destructive practices such as deep-sea mining or trawling.
We are confident that there are many more wonderful worms like Biremis within the mysterious depths of the ocean that will await discovery in the future,' MBARI representatives said.
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