{"id":3848,"date":"2011-03-25T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2011-03-25T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:28:17","slug":"a-pack-o-peanut-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/03\/25\/a-pack-o-peanut-worms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pack o&#8217; Peanut Worms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3849\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/sipunculans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3849\" title=\"Sipunculans\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/sipunculans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/sipunculans.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/03\/sipunculans-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: E. Loury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">These little goobers are called peanut worms, or sipunculids.\u00a0 Sipunculids are in their own phylum Sipuncula (that&#8217;s a pretty high level of taxonomic classification), so while their unsegmented bodies make them look like other marine worms (phylum Annelida), they are not directly related.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Sipunculids are pretty fascinating to watch because they can invert their long proboscis to bunch up (like the little peanut-look-alike on the far left), or extend it by essentially turning inside out.\u00a0 These specimens were just some of the great diversity of critters I found <a title=\"Who\u2019s at Home in a\u00a0Holdfast?\" href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2008\/09\/29\/who%e2%80%99s-at-home-in-a-holdfast\/\">poking around in a kelp holdfast<\/a>.\u00a0 Now the question remains: would you like those salted or unsalted?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These little goobers are called peanut worms, or sipunculids.\u00a0 Sipunculids are in their own phylum Sipuncula (that&#8217;s a pretty high level of taxonomic classification), so while their unsegmented bodies make them look like other marine worms (phylum Annelida), they are not directly related. Sipunculids are pretty fascinating to watch because they can invert their long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-invertebrates"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}