Worm ID help please! SOLVED: Dorvilleidae

[Xanthine]

Found this worm under a flat rock tonight on the sand. No tube, was just laying on side of rock when I picked it up.

 

It moved very eel like and much different from what I'm used to with bristleworms.

Hard to see in the pictures but it had large protrusions/antennae coming out of it's head.  

 

 

 

For scale:

 

 

On blue lid for the rest of the pictures:

 

Crawling up side of lid-

 

Belly up-

 

Top body area-

 

Tail - 

 

Close up of head-

 

Any idea what it is? 

 

[Xanthine]

I should add that this one in family Eunicidae is the closest match I've found on my own digging thus far....I'm guessing very closely related....

 

https://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=440124&one=T

 

 

[WV Reefer]

23 minutes ago, Xanthine said:

Found this worm under a flat rock tonight on the sand. No tube, was just laying on side of rock when I picked it up.

 

It moved very eel like and much different from what I'm used to with bristleworms.

Hard to see in the pictures but it had large protrusions/antennae coming out of it's head.  

 

 

 

For scale:

 

 

On blue lid for the rest of the pictures:

 

Crawling up side of lid-

 

Belly up-

 

Top body area-

 

Tail - 

 

Close up of head-

 

Any idea what it is? 

 

Have you checked out pics of dorvilleidae ?

[Xanthine]

12 minutes ago, WV Reefer said:

Have you checked out pics of dorvilleidae ?

I had not --- but these ones sure as heck look pretty close - thanks!

 

https://singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Anne-Polychaeta-000046

https://singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Anne-Polychaeta-000047

[WV Reefer]

5 minutes ago, Xanthine said:

I had not --- but these ones sure as heck look pretty close - thanks!

 

https://singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Anne-Polychaeta-000046

https://singapore.biodiversity.online/species/A-Anne-Polychaeta-000047

I think they are pretty...... for a worm. 🤷🏻‍♀️😄