Eunice aphroditois is a long multi-segmented. robust-bodied predatory worm and is one of the largest Polychaetes in the World.

One of the most conspicuous of the eunicids is the giant, dark-purple, iridescent "Bobbit worm" (Eunice aphroditois), found at low tide under boulders on southern Australian shores.

This is Eunice aphroditois, also known as the bobbit worm, a mix between the Mongolian death worm, the Graboids from Tremors, the Bugs from Starship Troopers, and a rainbow - but it's a really dangerous rainbow, like in Mario Kart.

The most terrifying creature in the sea, the bobbit worm?

And as for reproduction, the bobbit worm's habits remain a mystery.

It's called the bobbit worm, and it can destroy.

And marine biologists don't come across bobbit worms too often in the wild, Schulze says.

Bobbit worms may be accidentally introduced into artificial environments.

Using five antennae, the bobbit worm senses passing prey, snapping down on them with supremely muscled mouth parts, called a pharynx.

The bobbit worm may or may not be named after John Bobbitt, whose misadventures won't be elaborated on here.

A worm, obviously---specifically the bobbit worm.

Eunice aphroditois ("Bobbit worm")

"The occasional Bobbit worm has cropped up in other aquariums, but sadly they have been discovered too late, as the answer to spates of unexplained fish disappearances.

When folks introduce live rocks - which are actually skeletons of dead coral - into their saltwater aquariums, a teeny-tiny bobbit worm can come along for the ride.

Staffers eventually had to dismantle the exhibit, finding a 4-foot bobbit worm named Barry (presumably they gave him this name - he probably hadn't always gone by Barry).

In March 2009, the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall, discovered a Bobbit worm in one of their tanks.

Another Bobbit worm, three and a half feet long and a few inches thick, was found October 7, 2013 in Maidenhead Aquatics in Woking, Surrey.

A Daily Mail story about Barry suggested that the bobbit worm can permanently paralyze human appendages with its bristles, though Carrera-Parra and Salazar-Vallejo question this.

One of the most conspicuous of the eunicids is the giant, dark-purple, iridescent "Bobbit worm" (Eunice aphroditois), found at low tide under boulders on southern Australian shores.

The Bobbit worm, which is in two pieces, is currently in a tank on the counter at Maidenhead Aquatics Woking, where staff are keeping a close eye on it.

Walk the ocean floor in one of the world’s deepest viewing tunnels at the Deep in Hull while keeping an eye out for the Bobbit Worm, recently discovered beneath a rock at the aquarium.

The name "Bobbit worm" was coined in the 1996 book Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific, in reference to Lorena Bobbitt, who was then very much in the public consciousness.

Bobbit worms can tuck themselves away among coral and decimate an aquarium, picking off fish one by one, which you can imagine is quite confusing for the owner, since contrary to the events in Finding Nemo, fish typically don't just disappear.

This is Eunice aphroditois, also known as the bobbit worm, a mix between the Mongolian death worm, the Graboids from Tremors, the Bugs from Starship Troopers, and a rainbow - but it's a really dangerous rainbow, like in Mario Kart.