A new species of abyssal Neanthes Kinberg, 1865, N. goodayi sp. nov., is described from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in central Pacific Ocean, a region targeted for seabed mineral exploration polymetallic nodules. It relatively large animal found living inside nodules and xenophyophores (giant Foraminifera) growing on nodules, highlighting importance resource itself as distinct microhabitat. nov...

Originally published in 1967, John H Day’s work ‘A monograph on the Polychaeta of southern Africa’ is still used widely to identify polychaetes. However, ongoing taxonomic revisions have revealed that several putative cosmopolitan or locally widespread taxa contained are complexes species with discrete distributions, globally and locally. This study therefore aimed develop lists taxa, including...