Advances in Polychaete Research

Taxonomy, Systematics and Evolution.- Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and light microscopy (LM) study of important characters in the identification of Sigalionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta).- Horizontal distribution pattern of the syllid fauna (Annelida: Polychaeta) in the fringing reef lagoon of Anse Forbans (Seychelles, Mahé) and redescription of the abundant Streptosyllis aequiseta.- Three new interstitial dorvilleids (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Cymodocea nodosa meadows of the Canary Islands.- Two new species of polychaetes from the sublittoral bottoms off Antofagasta, Northern Chile: Clymenella fauchaldi n. sp. (Maldanidae) and Mooreonuphis colosensis n. sp. (Onuphidae).- A new species of Chaetozone (Polychaeta: Cirratulidae) from deep water in the northeast Atlantic, with comments on the diversity of the genus in cold northern waters.- Snowflakes and feather-dusters — some challenges for soft-bottom fanworm systematics.- Species of Litocorsa (Polychaeta: Pilargidae) from the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.- Opheliidae (Polychaeta) from the Southwestern Atlantic ocean, with the description of Travisia amadoi n. sp., Ophelina gaucha n. sp. and Ophelina alata n. sp..- Designation of a neotype of Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1813) and a description of a new species of Marphysa from eastern Australia.- Two new species of an atypical group of Pseudobranchiomma Jones (Polychaeta: Sabellidae).- Live history evolution in Serpulimorph polychaetes: a phylogenetic analysis.- Myzostomida from Madagascar, with the description of two new species.- Phylogenetic relations among spirorbid subgenera and the evolution of opercular brooding.- Inter-population variability and character description in the sponge-associated Haplosyllis spongicola complex (Polychaeta: Syllidae).-The Magelonidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Seychelles, with the description of three new species.- Problems in polychaete systematics.- A new genus of Syllidae (Polychaeta) from Western Australia.- Siboglinid evolution shaped by habitat preference and sulfide tolerance.- Morphology.- Functional morphology and feeding behavior of Streblospio benedicti and S. shrubsolii (Polychaeta: Spionidae).- Morphology and ultrastructure of the anterior end of Diplocirrus longisetosus Marenzeller, 1890 (Flabelligeridae, Polychaeta, Annelida).- Novel aspects of the nervous system of Bonellia viridis (Echiura) revealed by the combination of immunohistochemistry, confocal laser-scanning microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction.- Ultrastructural studies of dorsal ciliated organs in Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta).- Chaetae and mechanical function: tools no Metazoan class should be without.- Palp morphology in two species of Prionospio (Polychaeta: Spionidae).- Comparative study of the diaphragm (gular membrane) in Terebelliformia (Polychaeta, Annelida).- Ecology and Larval Biology.- Identification of adults and larvae in Spiochaetopterus (Polychaeta, Chaetopteridae): consequences for larval transport and recruitment.- Ecological aspects of syllids (Annelida: Polychaeta: Syllidae) on Thalassia testudinum beds in Venezuela.- Using indicator species to assess the state of macrobenthic communities.- Abundance and diversity patterns of annelids from intertidal sandy beaches in Iceland.- Response of polychaetes to oil spills in natural and defaunated subtropical mangrove sediments from Paranaguá bay (SE Brazil).- Changes in pelagic Polychaete assemblages along the California current system.- Distribution and diversity of the Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Mexican Gulfof Mexico and Caribbean.- Recent advances in the use of meiofaunal polychaetes for ecotoxicological assessments.- Particle size selection in individuals from epifaunal versus infaunal populations of the nereidid polychaete Neanthes succinea (Polychaeta: Nereididae).- Bathymetric distribution and diversity of deep water polychaetous annelids in the Sigsbee Basin, northwestern Gulf of Mexico.- Radiocarbon dating and metal analyses of ‘fossil’ and living tubes of Protula (Annelida: Polychaeta).- Polychaete community structure of the northwestern coast of Mexico: patterns of abundance and distribution.