The Stylet - Diversity and Systematics of Acoela and Nemertodermatida

This page is still being set up, please be patient while we add the missing steps.

Here are some movies on how to collect, extract and then treat specimens.

First, sediment with hopefully lots of acoels and nemertodermatids have to be collected. This can be done with different methods. For worm burrows in the intertidal a "slurp gun" for example can be used:

This video show how to make an extraction of meiofauna with magnesium chloride

After the extraction, we sort out acoels:

and if we are lucky we find many of one species alone: