Climate change and shell-boring polychaetes (Annelida: Spionidae): Current state of knowledge and the need for more experimental research

AA David - The Biological Bulletin, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Anthropogenic climate change is considered to be one of the greatest threats facing marine
biodiversity. The vast majority of experimental work investigating the effects of climate …

Polydorid polychaetes on farmed molluscs: distribution, spread and factors contributing to their success

CA Simon, W Sato-Okoshi - Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 2015 - int-res.com
Species of the Polydora-complex (ie polydorids) are the most common shell-boring
polychaetes found on cultured molluscs. However, which species become problematic …

Predicting the dispersal potential of an invasive polychaete pest along a complex coastal biome

AA David, CA Matthee, BR Loveday… - Integrative and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Boccardia proboscidea is a recently introduced polychaete in South Africa where it is a
notorious pest of commercially reared abalone. Populations were originally restricted to …

Oyster Reef Restoration and Biological Invasions: An Overlooked or a Non-issue?

AA David - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Oyster reef restoration has become a popular method for combating biodiversity loss and
environmental degradation in marine ecosystems, the latter of which includes the …

A new record of a cryptogenic Dipolydora species (Annelida: Spionidae) in South Africa

AA David, JD Williams, CA Simon - Journal of the Marine Biological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
In this study we report a new record of a cryptogenic polychaete from southern Africa. The
species was found inhabiting sand tubes in intertidal sand flats in the Knysna Estuary on the …

A morphological and molecular study of Polydora CF. Websteri (Annelida: Spionidae): accurate identification towards improved management of a globally distributed …

N Rodewald - 2020 - etd.cput.ac.za
Polydora websteri Hartman, 1943, a member of the Polydora-complex, commonly known as
polydorids (Annelida: Spionidae), is one of the most wide-spread polydorid pests of mollusc …