Tubicolous polychaetes as substrates for epizoic foraminifera

Taphonomic Disparity in Foraminifera as a Paleo-indicator for Seagrass

Seagrass meadows are a key component of marine ecosystems that play a variety of prominent geobiological roles in modern coastal environments. However, seagrass itself has low preservation potential, and consequently seagrass meadows are hard to identify in the rock record. In this study we combine observational taphonomic data from a modern sparse seagrass meadow with actualistic taphonomic ex...

Free-living marine polychaetes (Annelida) inhabiting hard-bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.

As part of a larger comparative study, marine polychaete hard-bottom assemblages were surveyed using artificial substrate units (ASUs) deployed at four sites off the islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The polychaete fauna was represented by 19 families comprising 89 species. The syllid Exogone dispar was the most abundant polychaete followed closely by the serpulid Pseudovermilia occidentalis. At ...

Polychaetes as Annelid Models to Study Ecoimmunology of Marine Organisms

Annelids are among the first coelomates and are therefore of special phylogenetic interest. They constitute an important part of the biomass of the seashore, estuaries, fresh water and terrestrial soils. Moreover, they occupy a central position in the trophic networks, as a major food source for fishes, birds and terrestrial fauna. Among Annelids, the large majority of polychaetes is restricted...

New genera for two polychaetes of Lepidonotinae

•Among the Lepidonotinae, two species of Lepidonotus are referred to new genera: L. dictyolepis Haswell, from Australia, to Augenerilepidonotus, and L. kumari Rullier, from Malaya, to Olgalepidonotus. As part of an on-going study on the polynoid polychaetes, two species that were described under Lepidonotus Leach, 1816, L. dictyolepis Haswell, 1883, from Australia, and L. kumari Rullier, 1970, ...

Short Communication: Using polychaetes as an assessment tool for health status of Jafari Creek, North-West of the Persian Gulf