Earth Worm wet specimen collectible specimen tube display oddity curiosity

ew6 This is a specimen of a Earth Worm preserved in solution for your viewing pleasure!  The display is approx. 6 x 3/4" and he comes in a very nice nice display jar with a cork top. The picture of the worm itself out of the display is a standard example picture and not the actual one in the display.  The worms are approx. 10 to 14".  

Species and fun facts-(Lumbricus terrestris) An earthworm is a tube-shaped, segmented worm found in the phylum Annelida. They have a world-wide distribution and are commonly found living in soil, feeding on live and dead organic matter. An earthworm's digestive system runs through the length of its body. It conducts respiration through its skin. It has a double transport system composed of coelomic fluid that moves within the fluid-filled coelom and a simple, closed blood circulatory system. It has a central and a peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system consists of two ganglia above the mouth, one on either side, connected to a nerve cord running back along its length to motor neurons and sensory cells in each segment. Large numbers of chemoreceptors are concentrated near its mouth. Circumferential and longitudinal muscles on the periphery of each segment enable the worm to move. Similar sets of muscles line the gut, and their actions move the digesting food toward the worm's anus.[1]

Earthworms are hermaphrodites: each individual carries both male and female sex organs. As invertebrates, they lack either an internal skeleton or exoskeleton, but maintain their structure with fluid-filled coelom chambers that function as a hydrostatic skeleton.

"Earthworm" is the common name for the largest members of Oligochaeta (which is either a class or a subclass depending on the author). In classical systems, they were placed in the order Opisthopora, on the basis of the male pores opening posterior to the female pores, though the internal male segments are anterior to the female. Theoretical cladistic studies have placed them, instead, in the suborder Lumbricina of the order Haplotaxida, but this may again soon change. Folk names for the earthworm include "dew-worm", "rainworm", "night crawler", and "angleworm" (due to its use as fishing bait).

Larger terrestrial earthworms are also called megadriles (which translates to "big worms"), as opposed to the microdriles ("small worms") in the semiaquatic families Tubificidae, Lumbricidae, and Enchytraeidae, among others. The megadriles are characterized by having a distinct clitellum (which is more extensive than that of microdriles) and a vascular system with true capillaries.

species and fun facts:  Emerita analoga, the Pacific sand crab, Pacific mole crab or coldwater mole crab, is a species of small, sand-burrowing decapod crustacean found living in the sand along the temperate western coasts of North and South America. It is found on exposed sandy beaches in the swash region of the intertidal zone.

Please note: Due to USPS shipping regulations the specimen will be shipped without alcohol. You can fill the test tube with 70% Isopropyl alcohol which can be purchased at any grocery or drug store.

 

The specimen will come in a bag with just a small amount of alcohol in it to make sure it does not dry in shipping.  The specimen should be removed from the bag, added to your/the jar and filled with the 70 percent alcohol to the top of the specimen once you receive.

If you do not have alcohol readily available you may freeze the specimen, wrap the specimen in double freezer bags with no air in the specimen bag and thaw when you have your alcohol available.

 

* These are not for Human or Animal consumption, product is not alive or edible.  Use gloves and mask when handling specimens.   ISOPROPYL AND FORMALIN IN THE PRODUCT IS FLAMMABLE! KEEP AWAY FROM HEAT AND OPEN FLAME.*

This item has been professionally preserved for display.  Wear gloves and mask when handling wet specimens*