Polychaete worms comprise one of the most abundant and diverse invertebrate groups in modern oceans, occu-pying habitats from beach environments to abyssal plains1.
Free-swimming polychaetes are common in marine habitats and exhibit a unique form of swimming whereby a metachronal wave occurs simultaneously with a bending body wave.
The Trojan seahorse: citizen science pictures of a seahorse harbour ...
Nov 1, 2024 · The Trojan seahorse: citizen science pictures of a seahorse harbour insights into the distribution and behaviour of a long-overlooked polychaete worm. Journal: Proceedings of the Royal …
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Feb 2, 2024 · Fishers use some polychaete species as bait. They call them bloodworms, moonshine worms or mussel worms. Some invasive species have become pests, infecting abalone or cultured …
Among the polychaetes examined in this study, T. osawai inhabited the most upstream areas of the tidal-sensitive zone. It is the most dominant polychaete species in these areas.
Here, we developed a comprehensive dataset for polychaetes in the IPC, encompassing information on species distribution, DNa barcodes, and functional traits.
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This narrows the most plausible trace makers to polychaetes and nematodes. Of the two, we suggest that nematodes are the more likely candidate, based on trace-fossil morphology.
Despite the little work done, so far, on Polychaeta, some authors have already reported toxins from these animals. The toxicology and the ecological role of these substances remains, nonetheless...
Shallow-water vents are known to harbor some endemic fauna, such as polychaetes Haplosyllis cratericola (Buzhinskaja, 1990) (Syllidae) and Lamellibrachia satsuma Miura, 1997 (Siboglinidae), …
Our study area encompasses the abyssal eastern and western basins in the tropical North Atlantic along the Vema Fracture Zone as well as the Puerto Rico Trench.