288 Pages 80 Color Illustrations
by CRC Press

Serpulid polychaetes are a unique and highly specialised group of marine segmented worms that have adapted to inhabiting self-secreted calcareous tubes attached to a wide range of hard substrates. These animals are found across all depths and habitats of the world’s oceans, and some form mutually beneficial associations with live corals. The genus Hydroides is of special concern and... Read more

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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Tubes

Chapter 3: History of studies

Chapter 4: Reproduction, development and life history

Chapter 5: Ontogeny: reversible asymmetry, compensatory regeneration and duplicity

Chapter 6: Economic and ecological impacts

Chapter 7: Barcoding, phylogeny and genome structure

Chapter 8: Biogeography

Chapter 9: Methods of collecting, examination, preservation and identification

Chapter 10: Diagnostic characters used for identification

Chapter 11: Key to the species of Hydroides worldwide

Chapter 12: Taxonomic account

Abbreviations of institutions where type material is deposited

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Biography

Elena Kupriyanova is a Senior Research Scientist at The Australian Museum, whose research interests are centred on taxonomy, biodiversity, systematics, phylogeny, life history, reproduction, and evolution of marine invertebrates, especially of the polychaete family Serpulidae (calcareous tubeworms).

Yanan Sun is a research student in the Marine Ecology Group at Macquarie University, Australia.

Eunice Wong is a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

Harry ten Hove is an annelidologist working in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.