Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: (2014) Published December 2014

In contrast to most of the polychaete larvae that were present in the lower layers of the water column, only Serpulidae larvae, one of the predominant intertidal animals

The new species is referred to the genus Ampharete based on characteristics of the prostomium, the presence of buccal tentacles with secondary pinnulae, four pairs of branchiae

Mean length of polychaetes and the ratio of small polychaetes to large polychaetes were similar in the experimental series and in the control, indicating a colonisation of crinoids

A total of 290 specimens were analysed from along the northern and southern Brazilian coast, and 21 of these presented morphological anomalies, such as variations in the number

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The primacy of explanation in systematics is, however, rarely cogently articulated and has led to a tendency to only focus on the diagrammatic qualities of

median antenna longer than lateral ones, almost reaching tip of palps, subdistally inflated, distally tapering; dorsal cirri present on chaetiger 2; shafts of spiniger-like

Dense populations of the free-living serpulid Ditrupa arietina were first recorded to the west and north of the Shetland Isles in the 1920s and have since been reported from the