Polychaeta - Alexander Semenov
Some of them look like Chinese sea dragons, while others look like exotic flowers. Some settle only inside the skeletons of dead whales which have sunk to the bottom of the sea, while …
Osedax roseus - Wikipedia
Osedax roseus is a species of bathypelagic polychaete worm that lives at abyssal depths and is able to sustain itself on the bones of dead whales. [2] The species is found in the North East …
Osedax - Wikipedia
Osedax is a genus of deep-sea siboglinid polychaetes, commonly called boneworms, zombie worms, or bone-eating worms. Osedax is Latin for "bone-eater". The name alludes to how the …
Polychaete - Wikipedia
Polychaeta (/ ˌ p ɒ l ɪ ˈ k iː t ə /) is a paraphyletic [1] class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (/ ˈ p ɒ l ɪ ˌ k iː t s /). Each body segment has a …
Skeletal structure, growth, and paleoecology of the patch reef ...
1989年1月1日 · Diplocbaeteles mexicanus as well D. longitubus demonstrate close relationships to a modern skeletal-forming polychaete worm, Dodecaria. Diplochaetetes is definitly not a …
On the role of bone-eating worms in the degradation of marine ...
2008年9月7日 · One of the more remarkable discoveries has been a specialized ‘whale-fall’ fauna, including organisms such as Osedax, a sessile polychaete worm that is capable of …
POLYCHAETE WORM DIPLOCHABTETES MEXICANUS WILSON, 1986 FROM THE OLIGOCENE OF BAJA CALIFORNIA (MEXICO) by RUDOLF FISCHER*, CARLos GALLI …
Skeletal structure, growth, and paleoecology of the patch reef ...
1989年1月1日 · Secreted from an organ connected to the polychaetes specialised glands, the cement glues sand grains and calcareous shell fragments of a given size and, on a larger …
NOAA Ocean Exploration
A syllid polychaete worm found within a dead Desmophyllum coral skeleton found along the canyon wall.
The tubicolous polychaete, Spirobranchus giganteus lives buried in coral skeletons. Its age and lon gevity were estimated indirectly from the annual coral-growth rings of the host coral counted...