Geoff Read

@annelidsci.bsky.social

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Marine annelid taxonomist, Aotearoa

Smiling young man holding a very large live earthworm, just dug up
Line drawing of head, scales and chaetae of a polynoid worm, drawn by Minoru Imajima
Busch 1851: plate 9, planktonic polychaete larvae from Trieste. He did not know them but someone has pencilled in an id as Chaetopteridae. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9996133
Plate of green Alitta nereid by Roberta McIntosh from her brother's 'British Annelids
Giant Riftia siboglinid worm cluster from ROV SuBastian livestream Guayamas Basin, Gulf of California, 2018 m
Ink drawings of a new cirratulid, Caulleriella jormungandri Grosse, Kongsrud, Alvestad, Eilertsen & Budaeva, 2025
Nudibranch-like worm on the left and real nudibranch on the right
Clump of Spirobranchus serpulids, ROV dive, Sonne, New Zealand
Icons of the most observed Annelida on iNaturalist
Cover of an edition of Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortz
Tell-tale pink traces of an Osedax worm colony on a whale skull trawled up from deep water off New Zealand