Oyster aquaculture is one of several methods for the restoration Delaware Inland Bays; however, little known about its potential impacts on benthic community bays. In this study, water quality parameters were measured and polychaetes collected from 24 sampling locations at Rehoboth, Indian River, Little Assawoman Bays July to October 2016 2017. We aimed assess impact Eastern oyster farming unde...

Promastobranchus Gallardo, 1968 is a small genus in the polychaete family Capitellidae, and available records are largely reported from Indo-West Pacific region. Although Gallardo (1968) Green (2002) noted that species had intraspecific variation number of thoracic chaetigers when they described two previously known species, this has not been corroborated using molecular evidence. In study, new...

In many regions, seawater desalination is a growing industry that has its impact on benthic communities. This study analyses the effect on benthic communities of a mitigation measure applied to a brine discharge, using polychaete assemblages as indicator. An eight-year study was conducted at San Pedro del Pinatar (SE Spain) establishing a grid of 12 sites at a depth range of 29-38 m during autu...

Annelid systematics and the ingroup relationships of polychaete annelids are matter of ongoing debates in recent analyses. For the investigation of sedentary polychaete relationships a molecular phylogenetic analysis was conducted based on 94 sequences of 18S rDNA, including unpublished sequences of 13 polychaete species. The data set was analyzed with maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood m...

This study evaluated pollution levels in water and sediments of Península de Paraguaná and related these levels with benthic macrofauna along a coastal area where the largest Venezuelan oil refineries have operated over the past 60 years. For this, the concentration of heavy metals, of hydrocarbon compounds and the community structure of the macrobenthos were examined at 20 sites distributed al...

Capitella capitata (Fabricius, 1780), the type species of the genus, was originally described from the SW coast of Greenland; however, current definitions of the species are largely based on Eisig (1887), who described specimens from Naples on the Mediterranean coast. Eisig’s excellent account of the morphology of a sexually dimorphic species has subsequently been applied to specimens collected...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.422.7501.].