Full Size Terrifying Bobbit Worm

Yeah the bobbit worm sounds like something out of a horror movie and it kind of is.

Full size terrifying bobbit worm. The name bobbit worm was first referenced in a 1996 creature guide for the indo pacific region as the author was comparing the scissor like jaws to the lorena bobbitt case. Determining the creature s full length is difficult but by comparing jaw to body ratios in living worms the scientists estimate these. Bobbit worms have a history of winding up in home aquariums going unnoticed for years at a time by hiding in pieces of coral and feeding on pet fish. Watch the full episode with your free trial for smithsonian channel plus by signing.

This naming had resulted in a common myth that the female worms will cut the penis off the male worm after mating and then feeds it to her young. It lives mainly in the atlantic ocean but can also be found in the indo pacific ocean area. The bobbit worm is found in the atlantic indo pacific region growing up to 3m in length. Also known as the aphrodite s worm.

Bobbit worm discovered in woking view gallery it is believed the bobbit worm got into the tank in a piece of live rock and had been living off cockles and shrimp as no fish had gone missing. This terrifying worm snatches fish from the ocean floor. This species is an ambush predator and hunts by burrowing its whole body in soft sediment on the ocean floor and waits until nearby prey is picked up on one. The bobbit worm also called giant reef worm is an aquatic polychaete worm of the eunicidae family it is a predator that awaits the ambush of its prey.

It buries its very long body on the seabed mainly in mud gravel or coral. Eunice aphroditois is a bristle worm ranging from less than 10 cm 4 in to 3 m 10 ft long that inhabits burrows it creates on the ocean floor. Blue planet ii on bbc america. Catching a bobbit worm duration.

3 coral reefs episode of planet earth. A terrifying predator of the seabed. The terrifying bobbit worm has a huge ancient cousin.