Hey y'all, my name is Mark Nikolic and I think marine invertebrates and fossils are rad. I currently work at Museums Victoria ( Melbourne Museum) as a research officer, where I work predominantly on making identification guides for marine annelids, particularly scale worms.

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Marine Annelida

Taxonomy templates

Annelid photographs and figures

A collection of photographs I've taken and figures/plates I've put together and released on Wikimedia Commons and included in Wikipedia articles.

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  Median cirrigerous parapodium from an Augenerilepidonotus dictyolepis specimen from Museums Victoria (MV F64510).
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  Dorsal view of an Augenerilepidonotus dictyolepis specimen from Museums Victoria (MV F64508)
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  Anterior of Augenerilepidonotus dictyolepis specimen from Museums Victoria (MV F220609).
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  Bathyeliasona nigra specimen in dorsal view from Museums Victoria (MV F2425887).
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  Image plate of different features and characters of Eunoe abyssorum. From an Australian Museum specimen (AM IN2017 V03 006).
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  Dorsal view of the anterior of a Eunoe abyssorum specimen from the Australian Museum, Sydney (AM IN2017 V03 006).
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  Eulagisca uschakovi specimen, dorsal view, Museums Victoria specimen (MV F135058).
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  Dorsal view of a specimen of Lepidonotus oculatus (MV F164625).
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  Bidentate neurochaetae from a Lepidonotus sp. specimen from Museums Victoria (MV F64528).
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  Neurochaetae from a Lepidonotus sp. specimen from Museums Victoria (MV F166815).
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  Augenerilepidonotus dictyolepis specimen from Museums Victoria (MV F220609) showing the prostomium with its structures labelled.
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  Microscope photograph of a parapodium from a specimen of Arctonoe sp. with chaetae and acicula labelled.
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  Lepidonotus oculatus specimen, with a microscope image of one of its parapodia (inset). Museums Victoria specimen.
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  A plate showing the different anatomical features of a representative annelid parapodium. Parapodium is from Lepidonotus oculatus and is a Museums Victoria specimen.
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  Euphione sp. specimen with its highly ornamented scales.
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  Microscope image of an elytron from Augenerilepidonotus dictyolepis. Museums Victoria specimen (MV F64510).
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  Eunoe etheridgei character plate from Museums Victoria specimens.
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  Anterior and prostomium region of a Eunoe etheridgei specimen from Museums Victoria (MV F271043).
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  Median parapodium from Eunoe leiotentaculata.
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  Anterior and prostomium of Eunoe leiotentaculata.
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  Eunoe leiotentaculata specimen from Museums Victoria.