The diversity and distribution of polychaetes in the coastal area and the EEZ of the Republic
of Cyprus is presented based on both the literature records and new data acquired in a wide …

Plastic pollution is widely recognized as one of the major threats to marine ecosystems.
However, our knowledge on the ecological interactions between plastic and marine fauna is …

Many sessile and tube-dwelling polychaetes can act as ecosystem engineers, influencing
the physical–chemical and biological characteristics of their habitats, increasing structural …

Dense associations of vertical trace fossils are typically used as a proxy for nearshore
palaeoenvironments. Here we challenge this assumption by reporting dense associations of …

A 21-day continuous monitoring of a highly tridimensional forest of the black coral
Antipathella subpinnata (Ellis and Solander 1786) was carried out in the NW Mediterranean …

During the last decades, the number of observations of the basket star Astrospartus
mediterraneus (Risso, 1826) in the Mediterranean Sea has significantly grown, thanks to …

Echinoderms are among the most charismatic megabenthic taxa in mesophotic and deep
waters. However, they generally have a scattered distribution and are difficult to collect …

Sampling activities conducted in the Tyre Coast Nature Reserve, southern Lebanon, to study
the marine annelid fauna of the area, allowed for the revision of the diversity of this group in …

Euchonoides is a genus of small sabellid worms composed of two valid species, E. moeone
from Hawaii and E. bicincta from Kamchatka and Kurile Islands. We report here a third …

Due to the presence of companion chaetae on the thoracic notopodia, a feature unnoticed
on the material of the original description, the species Pseudobranchiomma tarantoensis …