polychaete

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• There are more than 50 fish species whose lives are linked to Sargassum, and a myriad of invertebrates, including gastropods, polychaetes, bryozoans, anemones, and sea-spiders.
• Forty-two percent of the diet of the black-footed penguin is small shoaling fish, with 25 species of fish, including anchovies (Engraulis capensis) and sardines (Sardinops sagax) being recorded, as well as 18 species of crustaceans, three species of squid, and one species of polychaete worm. Black-footed penguin
• In this regard their mode of life may have been quite similar to fossil and recent species of tubicolous polychaete worms, such as serpulids.
• The anteriorly situated, eversible ciliated pits (frontal organs) resemble nuchal organs of polychaete annelids.
• The body of an echiuran lacks annelid-type segmentation, but the distinctive free-swimming trochophore larval stages of echiurans and polychaetes are very similar.
• Yellowfin sole, Alaska plaice, and rock sole consume mostly infaunal prey such as polychaetes, clams, and echiuran worms. General description of the Arctic biota
• Following cold years, the polychaete Maldane sarsi predominates. Past variability in Arctic marine systems
• In addition, the pulmonate snail, the marsh clam, and several polychaete worms were abundant.
• In years following warming, the polychaete Spiochaetopterus typicus predominates along the Kola Section in the Barents Sea. Past variability in Arctic marine systems
• Finally, the conspicuous polychaete sponge Isodlctya erinacea produces the yellow pigment erebusinone, a tryptophan catabolite similar to catabolites regulating crustacean molting.