Franco Banfi / Detail of Bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Franco Banfi / Detail of Bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Franco Banfi / Slope close to wreck of the cargo boat 'Vassilios T' with Bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) with Sea star (Hacelia attenuata) Vis Island, Croatia, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean

Juergen Freund / Bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) a polychaete worm on white background, from Indo-pacific.

Michele Westmorland / Bearded Fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) making its way over reef, Dominica, West Indies, Caribbean.

Warwick Sloss / Bearded fireworm {Hermodice carunculata} collected in shallow waters off the coast of Little San Salvador, Bahamas and photographed under captive conditions, photographed under blue light to show natu...

Claudio Contreras / Bearded fire worm (Hermodice carunculata) with white bristles over Porous sea rod (Pseudoplexaura sp) Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve, Caribbean Sea, Mexico, May

Fred Bavendam / Marine Fireworm (Hermodice carunculata), Bonaire, Caribbean

Luciano Candisani / Marine Fireworm (Hermodice carunculata), Rocas Atoll, Brazil

Norbert Wu / Marine Fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) a Bristleworm that stings fiercely, Caribbean

Juergen Freund / Fire worm (Hermodice carunculata) Indo-pacific

Franco Banfi / Detail of Bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata), Marine Protected area Punta Campanella, Costa Amalfitana, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea.