Photo of Unidentified myzostomids taken by William Tan at Gorontalo, Indonesia (verified by Leslie Harris)
Scientific Classification:
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumAnnelida
ClassPolychaeta
OrderMyzostomida
FamilyMyzostomidae
SpeciesUnidentified myzostomids

Information

Comment from Dr. Richard Willan: The flat, soft-bodied creatures living commensally with the crinoids would be myzostomids. These enigmatic animals are distant relations of bristle worms (Polychaeta), but have a soft body without any external signs of segmentation. Nothing is known about the biology of the Myzostomida, so any observations you can make on their natural history would represent completely new discoveries.

Locality

Indonesia
Gorontalo
Jan
Lembeh
Oct

Sample Photos of Unidentified myzostomids

Photo by William Tan in Gorontalo, Indonesia
Photo by William Tan in Gorontalo, Indonesia
Photo by Indra Swari in Lembeh, Indonesia