From daemon Wed Jul 2 15:09:19 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA23965 Message-Id: <199707022209.PAA23965@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA (Nat. Inst. Water & Atmos. Research) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 10:02:34 +1100 Subject: David W. Kirtley ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: kirtley@sabecon.vt.com Message-Id: <199707021221.HAA03977@admin.vt.com> Comments: Authenticated sender is To: gread@actrix.gen.nz Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 07:18:36 +0000 I have just been informed that my father, David W. Kirtley has passed away. I do not have the relevant e-mail addresses to inform the people who my father has been working with over the years to inform them of his passing. I know that most of the people he was working with over the years are readers of your list and thought that this would be an appropriate place to send the information. Thank you. David D. Kirtley ------- End Forwarded Message ------- -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Wed Jul 2 17:27:17 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA13154 Message-Id: <199707030027.RAA13154@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA (Nat. Inst. Water & Atmos. Research) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 11:46:25 +1100 Subject: Re: David W. Kirtley Dear friends, This is very distressing news. There will be many of us who know of David, who was I believe primarily a geologist, and corresponded with him concerning the polychaete side of his many interests during his devoted pursuit of the Sabellariidae, culminating in his impressive taxonomic monograph of 1994. Perhaps some who worked with him will be able to talk about his life and work for us. I never met him in person, but I did greatly enjoy his letters and support in the short time I knew him and am much saddened he is no longer with us. I will miss him. Geoff Read -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Wed Jul 2 19:42:50 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA27166 Message-Id: <199707030242.TAA27166@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:19:06 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: jablake@ix.netcom.com (JAMES A. BLAKE) Subject: Re: David W. Kirtley Dear friends, I too am saddened by the passing of David Kirtley. I was aware that he had health problems, but I understand he insisted on carrying on with his research as best he could. I can share a few moments. David used to call me from time to time asking if I had specimens of sabellariids from one place or another or could help him locate some obscure record. From me, he was hoping to learn about the availability of deep-sea specimens. After publication of the first polychaete volume of our Taxonomic Atlas he called one day to inquire about the plate of larvae of Phragmatopoma I had published in the Polychaete Introductory chapter. He was worried about the number and orientation of the feeding tentacles, as I recall. Being as how I had made those illustrations 20 yrs earlier, I could barely remember drawing them. But in any case, we did have a great discussion about the biology of larval and juvenile sabellariids. I found him a very careful and thoughtful person with an eye for detail. David was trained as a geologist and as such he was very interested in the role sabellariids play in preventing erosion along the shore. As a resident of Florida, beach erosion and beach nourishment are big issues. I was recently involved in a project at Cape Canaveral that included beach nourishment issues. In reading the Environmental Impact documents, I found a letter that David had submitted to the agency of concern presenting details of the possible impacts of relocating sand from one location to another on the resident sabellariid populations. He presented some information that was completely new to me; I suspect that there are quite a few EISs in Florida that contain letters from David. We will miss him. Sincerely, Jim Blake ENSR, 89 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543 -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Thu Jul 3 14:41:36 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA06646 Message-Id: <199707032141.OAA06646@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:12:57 -0300 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Paulo da Cunha Lana Organization: Centro de Estudos do Mar Subject: Re: David W. Kirtley As far as it goes with Southamerican polychaetologists, David Kirtley has always been a most kind and helpful colleague. His efforts were fundamental to improve our knowledge of local Sabellariidae. It was his intention to present a paper titled 'Sabellariidae in modern and ancient seas' at the next polychaete conference. I believe that after the completion of his impressive taxonomical monograph this would be a synthesis of his thoughts on the biogeography of the group. He will surely be missed in our next meeting. I will miss him personally. Paulo Lana -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Thu Jul 3 15:01:07 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA09597 Message-Id: <199707032201.PAA09597@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 08:33:51 -0700 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: KevinE@maine.maine.edu (Kevin J. Eckelbarger) Subject: In Memory of David Kirtley I was distressed to learn of the recent death of David Kirtley. Dave and I were colleagues at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst. in Ft. Pierce, Florida during the 1970's and we shared a laboratory and office for several years. He was in many ways a mentor and he helped stimulate my interest in polychaete biology. We conducted research together and we spent endless hours in the field collecting sabellariid polychaetes. He was without a doubt a very unusual and unique fellow. In many ways, Dave was responsible for getting me my first research job. I was writing my Ph.D. dissertation at Northeastern University (Boston) on the reproductive biology of Nicolea zostericola when the phone rang one afternoon in 1973. It was Dave Kirtley cheerfully asking if I'd be interested in a job in Florida studying the biology of sabellariid polychaetes as part of a collaborative beach erosion project with the Univ. of Florida. He had been asked to recruit a polychaete biologist and I had the good fortune to get the call. As I recall, Dave learned of my work from my M.A. advisor, Don Reish, but the phone call was almost a random act on Dave's part. That call changed my life. Dave had actually called D.P. Wilson in Plymouth to ask him if HE wanted the job! Unfortunately for Harbor Branch, Wilson preferred England so they got stuck with me. One thing led to another and I ended up at Harbor Branch sharing a project with Dave for several years. When I first arrived in Florida, I had not completed my dissertation and Dave pushed me hard to finish up so we could plunge into sabellariid biology together. He was finishing his Ph.D. rather late in life so, despite a great difference in age, we both defended our dissertations just a few weeks apart. Dave eventually left Harbor Branch in the late 1970's but I remained for another 18 years and we saw each other off and on. We chatted on the phone several times in recent years - the last time just a few months ago. Although I had long since departed the world of sabellariids, he continued to pick my brain about matters that troubled him. I visited D.P. Wilson at his home in Plymouth right before his death in the late 1980's and he wanted to know all about David Kirtley because Dave had exchanged many letters with him. Wilson was pleased that someone was continuing to do research on sabellariids and that Dave had taken the time to write an old man in his final years. Dave was a humble fellow when it came to his research and he was always careful to give credit to pioneers. This was reflected in the "Acknowledgments" of his 1974 dissertation: "Should this account of the writer's research prove to be useful to subsequent workers, the credit must go to those scientists and laymen who, since at least as long ago as 1711, have made their notes, observations and insight concerning the modern Sabellariidae and their possible fossil homologues available to science through publication. It is their devoted work that forms the scientific basis for this study. Where there are inadequacies and perhaps mistakes in this synthesis of published accounts and original research, the writer acknowledges them as his very own" Dave Kirtley easily qualified as a "character". My first meeting with him in 1973 left me wondering what I was getting myself into but as I got to know him better, I soon discovered that he was a delightful and complex fellow. On the surface, he seemed to be a little nuts some days and he was perpetually engaged in mysterious plots and schemes. He was a world traveler and a bon vivant who had an insatiable curiosity about the natural world. He also lived life to the fullest and sometimes to excess. When I first discovered that he was getting his Ph.D. in geology, I assumed he didn't know much about biology - particularly invertebrates. I was very wrong. As far as I could tell, Dave was a self-taught biologist but he read widely and we held endless debates in our office about evolution and invertebrate biology. Dave opened my eyes to the world of geology and paleobiology. He had what seemed to be a photographic memory and he could recite long passages verbatim from obscure works. He had been an Oklahoma oil field "wild catter" who was familiar with the rough and tumble world of Oklahoma "roughnecks". Although he looked like a rogue himself some days - a huge fellow with a deep voice and sunburn to match - he had a sharp mind and the field of geology merely served as a backdrop to his real love - polychaete biology. Invertebrate paleontology was a life long fascination for him and he was definitely obsessed with the Sabellariidae! He wrote his dissertation on a desk next to mine ("Geological Significance of the Sabellariidae" - Florida State Univ., 1974) and I watched him struggle through endless drawings of tubes and adult specimens. When I bought a new photomicroscope to study sabellariid larvae and histological sections of gonads, he began feeding me material to photograph for him. Although he had no experience with histology, he examined every slide I ever produced from a sabellariid - and he quickly learned all about their internal morphology. There were no details too trivial for his eye. I soon found myself learning from him and I developed a respect for his ideas and opinions. I also learned a great deal about geology and paleontology by reading all the literature he regularly dumped in my lap. We shared a 10' x 10' office that was so packed with sabellariid specimens from around the planet that it was nearly impossible to move! Dave was very comfortable with people and I always thought he could have been a millionnaire if he had gone into used car sales. He had a way with words, as they say. He was a charmer who could talk you into doing things you would never consider until he had you cornered. He was very articulate and was fluent in several languages so he moved easily in foreign circles. He liked people and he had charisma to burn. He was also a dreamer and a schemer and he used his natural "people skills" to arm-twist others into helping him with his various research causes. We both gave hundreds of talks on sabellariid biology throughout south Florida - mostly to the public but often to officials who were concerned about beach erosion control. Dave was passionate about developing new ways to control erosion through biological means and with the force of his personality, he managed to find people willing to support him. In his endless quest for research support, he had dealings with both the high and the mighty - and sometimes the questionable - in an effort to secure funding for his dream projects. He was a survivor and he managed to continue his sabellariid research despite a general lack of interest by others. I admired his persistence and his infectious enthusiasm for polychaetes. I will always remember Dave as something of a father figure in my formative years following graduate school. He had lived a lot more of life than I had at that point and his worldly experience was attractive to a dull Indiana farm boy who was just beginning a career in marine science. It was perhaps not generally known that Dave had a number of lingering health problems that periodically forced him from the lab. He suffered from war-related injuries that caused him great pain some days and he was supposed to carefully watch his diet - which he rarely did. Dave always plunged ahead in life and damn the consequences! However, even on days when he was feeling ill, you could still engage him in a discussion if you had something new to say about sabellariids. Dave Kirtley made an indelible impression on me and we have all lost a champion of polychaete biology. Sabellariids never had a better friend. He loved the following quote (J.W. v. Goethe) from "Faustus", Part I and he included it in the introduction to his dissertation - it seems appropriate to repeat it here: "How can such hope dwell in one who digs through trash, with eager hands, and is delighted to find worms?" Regards to all, Kevin J. Eckelbarger Kevin J. Eckelbarger Darling Marine Center University of Maine 25 Clark's Cove Rd. Walpole, Maine 04573 Phone: 207-563-3146 (ext. 203) Fax: 207-563-3119 e-mail: kevine@maine.maine.edu -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Thu Jul 3 15:01:07 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA09596 Message-Id: <199707032201.PAA09596@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 18:08:27 +0300 (EET DST) Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: nadiapap@imbc.gr (Nadia Papadopoulou) Subject: polychaete feeding Dear Annelidians, I work at the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete as a polychaete taxonomist (html: //www.imbc.gr/) and at the same time I'm registered for a PhD on shelf, slope & deep sea polychaetes (100-1600 m) from quantitative boxcore samples (0.1 m2, 0.5 mm sieve size, 5 replicates/station) from the Aegean in the framework of 2 EC supported MAST projects (MAST II: CINCS & MAST III: MATER). So far the emphasis was on spatial, temporal, vertical (0-5, 5-10, 10-20 cm in the sediment) & bathymetric distributional patterns of polychaetes & polychaete feeding types (acc. to Fauchald & Jumars 1979) in relation to environmental parameters (sediment chla, TOC, TON, ATP, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, bacterial biomass). Now I would like to put more towards functional aspects and especially feeding. I have two more sets of samples coming in (Sept 97 & Feb 98, 400 - 2200 m, 0.25 m2, 0.5 & 0.3 mm sieve sizes, 5 replicates/station) and I would really like to try and learn more about my dominant species (tiny: Pholoides dorsipapillatus, Levinsenia gracilis, Galathowenia oculata, medium sized: Paradiopatra sp. and Terebellides stroemi) both in terms of how they're feeding and what are they feeding upon. Any ideas, suggestions, tips on gut contents analysis (especially for small animals) and or /ive observations, thoughts on the topic of polychaete feeding, contacts will be of great help and greatly appreciated. Many thanks Nadia ***************************************************** :-) Nadia Papadopoulou-Smith Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, PO Box 2214, 71003 Iraklion, Crete, Greece. Tel: +30 81 242022/241992, Fax: +30 81 241882, E-mail:nadiapap@imbc.gr -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Fri Jul 4 18:00:24 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA12632 Message-Id: <199707050100.SAA12632@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 14:44:41 +0200 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Thomas Moertelmaier Subject: Taxonomic status of E. foetida Dear colleagues, Apparently I have a problem with putting Eisenia foetida into a correct taxonomic rank. Could you by any means help me, to find out, which is the correct (meaning actual) name of this worm or where I can get proper information about this species. Thanks a lot in advance, my best wishes Thomas -- Mag. Thomas Moertelmaier University of Salzburg Dept. of Zoology Hellbrunnerstr. 34 A-5020 Salzburg AUSTRIA Phone: +43/(0)664-2113134 e-Mail: Thomas.Moertelmaier@mh.sbg.ac.at Syrphtom@wst.edvz.sbg.ac.at Syrphtom@dmin24.min.sbg.ac.at -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Sun Jul 13 15:43:49 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id PAA16665 Message-Id: <199707132243.PAA16665@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA (Nat. Inst. Water & Atmos. Research) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 10:29:11 +1100 Subject: (Fwd) Proceedings of 5th conference ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: DJReish@aol.com Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:46:02 -0400 (EDT) To: Subject: Proceedings of 5th conference Dear Geoff Would you please put this information on the Polychaete and/or annelid online? The proceedings of the 5th polychaete conference has been published by the Bulletin of Marine Science. All those people who published a paper in the proceedings and was the first author will receive a free copy of the Bulletin from the editor of the Bulletin. Those additional people who paid registration fee (you, for example, Geoff) will receive a free copy from me. I will start mailing them out beginning July 15. Those people who do not fall into the above groups who were referees of the papers will receive a free copy from me in appreciation for their efforts. Finally, copies are available from me at US$35.00 which includes handling and postage. You can pay by sending US$35.00 drawn on a U.S. Bank made out to Polychaete Conference and send to me or you can charge it on either VISA or MasterCard (no other plastic companies) by sending me the name on the account, the account number and the expiration date. You can either mail me the information, FAX me (562-985-5846) or send by e-mail (DJR@aol.com). Thanks Geoff. Don -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Mon Jul 14 15:30:36 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id PAA24605 Message-Id: <199707142230.PAA24605@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 08:50:09 EDT Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Bill Moser Subject: Polychaete ID's Dear Annelid Folks, A colleage asked me to post this letter on the Annelida discussion list. Please respond directly to Allegra Small (small.allegra@nmnh.si.edu). <> -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Tue Jul 15 22:21:59 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id WAA12799 Message-Id: <199707160521.WAA12799@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Wilson, Robin" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: Extracting polydorids Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 15:13:53 +1000 Hello all, I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to extract polydorids (and other polychaetes) from their holes in corraline algae, without damage to the worms. (The samples are of live specimens). I am experimenting with letting the water become anoxic, in the hope that the worms will become desperate enough to leave their holes. Chipping away at the algae mostly results in broken and squashed worms. (Not that I am especially interested in polydorids myself, but I am trying to help out a student who wants to know roughly what is living in her algal substrate.) bye Robin Robin Wilson Museum of Victoria 71 Victoria Crescent Abbotsford 3067 Australia telephone (61) 3 9284 0216; fax (61) 3 9416 0475 rwilson@mov.vic.gov.au Polychaetes of Australia URL http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/poly -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Wed Jul 16 03:19:22 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id DAA12757 Message-Id: <199707161019.DAA12757@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 09:53:59 +0200 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Harry A. ten Hove" Subject: Re: Extracting polydorids >I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to extract polydorids I had moderately success with adding a few drops of formalin to the seawater. This will force quite a few cryptic animals out of their crevices. wormly Harry A. ten Hove Institute for Systematics and Populationbiology Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam POB 94766, 1090 GT AMSTERDAM TEL. 3120 5256906 FAX. 3120 5255402 -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Wed Jul 16 14:51:40 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id OAA11007 Message-Id: <199707162151.OAA11007@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: SRice1947@aol.com Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:16:55 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Extracting polydorids I have had very good luck using magnesium chloride to extract worms from corals, shells, and other hard substrata. If you make up a solution of MgCl2 that is isotonic to the water you are holding the worms in and submerge the material in the solution, the worms will relax and can be sucked out of their burrows with a pipette. The more concentrated the MgCl, the faster the worms will relax but the survival of extracted worms is better with slightly hypotonic MgCl. Worms that relax quickly (like most spionids) can be removed from their burrows and placed back into normal seawater with full recovery. Good luck! Stanley A. Rice University of Tampa Tampa, FL (813) 253-3333 Ext. 3340 Fax: (813) 258-7881 e-mail: SRice1947@aol.com -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Wed Jul 16 14:51:40 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id OAA11002 Message-Id: <199707162151.OAA11002@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Dr. Julie Brock" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: University of Hawaii - Zoology Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:04:05 -1000 Subject: Re: Extracting polydorids Hi, If not fussy about dead or alive, formalin fixation of coralline material is one way to go. Worms are a bit tougher and less likely to fall apart when pushing and chipping them from the rock. For quantitative estimate of substrate content can acid dissolve from fixed substrate and then sort and count them. 4 percent nitric acid in the formalin solution (ie 4 of acid in 96 dilute formalin) with some agitation or stirring of small to moderate size rubble (surface to vol is important if you want it to dissolve fairly fast). Use a nytex mesh over the pvc plastic pipe as container so solution can penetrate. Or we do small samples in plastic food containers keep covered and swirl and add fresh solution when dissolution slows. Rinse dissolved out worms onto a sieve and store in 70 percent ethanol. Once student has a feel for the pickled worms it may be easier to work with the live. See Brock,R. and J.Brock 1977 Limnology and Oceanography vol 22 (5) 948-951. A method for quantitatively assessing the infaunal community in coral rock. Somehow true borers are reluctant to leave the burrow and usually die in it, while nestlers will oblige when the oxygen runs low. Kohn did the chip method with much patience on preserved substrate. Aloha and thanks for your input on the Hesionura ???? Julie Brock -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Wed Jul 16 17:02:42 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id RAA27745 Message-Id: <199707170002.RAA27745@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Sean Handley" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: Cawthron Institute Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 11:34:27 GMT+1200 Subject: Re: Extracting polydorids > I would be grateful for any suggestions on how to extract polydorids A method I have used to extract spionids from oysters is the use of the vermifuges: 0.5% phenol and/or 0.25% di-dichlorobenzene in seawater. The worms are expelled from their host if left overnight in these solutions. Caution is advised working with di-chlorobenzene... For further reading on vermifuges and acid dissolution of coral see: MacKenzie, C.L.; Shearer, L.W. 1959: Chemical control of Polydora websteri and other annelids inhabiting oyster shells. Proceedings - National Shellfisheries Association 50: 105-111. Brock, R.E. and Brock, J.H. 1977: A method for quantitatively assessing the infaunal community in coral rock. Limnol.Oceanogr. 22:948-951, . Regards....Sean xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sean Handley sean@environment.cawthron.org.nz Cawthron 98 Halifax St East Private Bag 2 Tel 64 03 548 2319 Nelson Fax 64 03 546 9464 New Zealand xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Wed Jul 16 21:08:37 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id VAA20663 Message-Id: <199707170408.VAA20663@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:01:02 +0300 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: antmen@dominet.in.com.tr (M. Ant Turkmen) Subject: Leech data from Turkey I am a master student in Zoology Department of Hacettepe University, Ankara. I am going to make my thesis on leech systematics, zoogeography and ecology in Turkey. No sufficent data reported about the leeches of Turkey yet. I need a support for this study. I would greatly appreciate if any one is interested in supporting my works and sharing the data available in Turkey. Mehmet Ant Turkmen. Emek 4.Cad., No:16/5 06510, Ankara, Turkey antmen@dominet.in.com.tr -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Thu Jul 17 19:48:28 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id TAA21396 Message-Id: <199707180248.TAA21396@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Wilson, Robin" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: Thanks for help on polydorids Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:38:20 +1000 Thanks very much to those who supplied information on extracting polydorids from corraline algae. As you will all have read, several approaches were suggested and hopefully one will succeed. I have passed on the information to the student and will therefore probably soon be burdened with lots of polydorids to look at! Bye Robin Robin Wilson Museum of Victoria 71 Victoria Crescent Abbotsford 3067 Australia telephone (61) 3 9284 0216; fax (61) 3 9416 0475 rwilson@mov.vic.gov.au Polychaetes of Australia URL http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/poly -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Fri Jul 18 18:05:14 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id SAA10203 Message-Id: <199707190105.SAA10203@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Petersen, Mary E. {ZMUC}" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: In Memory of David W. Kirtley Date: Fri, 18 Jul 97 18:50:00 DST Friday, 18 July 1997 Dear Colleagues, I was at a DANIDA / PMBC BIOSHELF Polychaete Workshop in Phuket, Thailand when I got the sad news that David W. Kirtley had died. He was affiliated with the Florida Oceanographic Society and the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museum in Fort Pierce, Florida, but mostly worked from his home in Vero Beach, Florida. To say that news of his death came as a shock and leaves a deep sense of loss is a huge understatement. Although I knew that he had health problems, I had heard from David shortly before I left and his plans for the summer included visits to several museums and gave no indication that anything was wrong. At that time he was perhaps not aware of it himself. Although I had met David at the 4th International Polychaete Conference in Angers, France, in 1992, it was not until early 1995, when he sent me a copy of his monograph on the Sabellariidae that I really got to know him. After making sure that this important publication was really intended for me and not for the library, I wrote and thanked him. This was the start of a most enjoyable and interesting correspondence during which he enlightened me about all sorts of things, including those geological, and quickly became a close and highly valued friend and colleague. In the approximately two years that we had been communicating we managed to discuss - and sometimes solve - problems of all sorts, ranging from obscure type localities (and sometimes type depositories!) of sabellariids to the nomenclature of daffodils and jonquils. He appeared to have an insatiable appetite for knowledge, and as also noted by Kevin Eckelbarger, an incredible memory and a well developed sense of humor. As Kevin pointed out so well, David was a multitalented and highly unusual person with a curiosity, enthusiasm, and willingness to examine new ideas - even if he really didn't agree with them - that commanded admiration and respect. Despite various problems of health and funding applications that didn't get funded, David always came through as an optimist, and not a complainer. At a stage in life when many others would be thinking of winding up a research career, David was busily engaged in exploring new horizons and new ways to make his beloved sabellariids easier for the rest of us to recognize and identify. He was working on an illustrated web page for the genera and also wrote that he was making a three-dimensional model of a sabellariid to make the true relationships of the different features easier to understand. His enthusiasm was truly infectious; even though sabellariids might be outside one's present field of interest, I suspect that anyone who came in contact with David probably began to think they should at least pay more attention to these beautiful small animals. When David visited the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen in early 1996, as part of a study of sabellariids in European museums, part of his visit overlapped that of Vasily Radashevsky. To save time I fixed supper for all three of us at the museum, and we had some wonderful discussions on all imaginable topics over impromptu meals in the department library. David was a very conscientious and careful researcher, and while some of his descriptions may seem brief, it is not because he was superficial, but rather, perhaps, because he understood the animals so well that he did not always realize that others of us might have preferred a bit more information. At the time of his death, David was collaborating with several colleagues around the world on new species and genera of sabellariids. In his last letter to me he wrote: >[the collaborators] don't know it, but the main >reason I've been dragging and dragging my feet in completing some joint >papers is: that I need to carefully check (and recheck) the database that >includes the USNM collection before I can - with a clear conscience and >to my own satisfaction - publish more new species names. If I didn't >know that the specimens are there and it's just a matter of having the >expense money to go and dig through them then it would be a different >matter; but since I DO know that I would have a better perception of the >diagnostic characters and apparent ranges of variability of those features, >then I GOT to look! I think this expresses David's attitude towards research pretty well - to do the best job possible without shortcuts or compromises. It's a real pity that he never got to check the material and more of one that he couldn't do so and stick around a bit longer to tell us about it. I'm sure that there are many of us who join his family in agreeing that his departure came much, much too soon. I feel privileged that I had the opportunity to get to know David better, even if only for a short time. It has been a delightful and enriching experience. He is already sorely missed and will not be forgotten. Sincerely, Mary E. Petersen Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark Tel +45-35 32 10 67 --- Fax +45-35 32 10 10 E-mail: mepetersen@zmuc.ku.dk ------------------------------------------------- -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Fri Jul 18 20:19:38 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id UAA20046 Message-Id: <199707190319.UAA20046@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Dr. Julie Brock" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: University of Hawaii - Zoology Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:44:52 -1000 Subject: Re: In Memory of David W. Kirtley David Kirtley could make an ordinary day a Great Day, by sending an email with sab news along with a dose of his special good humor. We worked via space waves on Sabs from Fiji and Malaysia and almost, but not quite, resolved them both. I tried to get more Fiji specimens for him, but even photos of the worms growing on rocks in Suva harbor with hammer for scale did not motivate USP biologists to rush out and find them. But I am fairly content that these IDs were not resolved. I would have missed some great stories! My last communications with him were about sabs from Christmas Island that I had referred to him as the specialist. He was ready to make a reservation to Christmas on the condition he could do some fishing at the same time as collect sabs, and eat the catch ( the fish, I think). I was about to get back to him on airline charters when I received Kevin's message. I am most grateful for David Kirtley's advice on Hawaiian sabs (sabellariids, not sabellids!), his contribution to that family in "Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii" and his willing assistance with sab questions. My sympathy to his family and friends. With Aloha and a big Maholo to David Kirtley, from Julie Bailey-Brock -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Sun Jul 20 23:39:25 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id XAA22626 Message-Id: <199707210639.XAA22626@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA (Nat. Inst. Water & Atmos. Research) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 18:33:00 +1100 Subject: Chaetopterus alert Hello folks, What would you choose if you had to represent the polychaetes with one photo? Well, the editors of Science elected for ... you guessed it. And a good choice too (any contrary views are welcome to be aired), though it may be more linked to the 2nd article below than is apparent to me at the moment. The news article is: Pennisi,Elizabeth; Roush,Wade (1977): Developing a new view of evolution. Science 277(4 July), 34-37. It's about advances in evolutionary developmental biology & worth a read if you haven't seen it already. The research relevant to polychaetes (limb development) is, I assume (not having yet seen beyond the abstract), in: Panganiban,G; Irvine,SM; Lowe,C; Roehl,H; Corley,LS; Sherbon,B; Grenier, JK; Fallon,JF; Kimble,J; Walker,M; Wray,GA; Swalla,BJ; Martindale,MQ; Carroll,SB (1997): The origin and evolution of animal appendages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94(10), 5162-5166. -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Tue Jul 22 03:16:06 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id DAA23382 Message-Id: <199707221016.DAA23382@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Wilson, Robin" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: Update on extracting polydorids Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 17:03:40 +1000 Hi annelid people Thanks again to those who provided useful information and suggestions on extracting polydorids (and other polychaetes) from coralline algae. I have passed on all these suggestions to the student involved in the project. I had 2 jars to play with myself, each containing lots of live worms in holes in coralline alga-encrusted rocks in salt water. I left these in a refrigerator @4 degrees C over the weekend, and when I remembered to look at them today I found that all the worms seemed dead, but not yet too smelly. I was able to gently pull many specimens from their holes with forceps. The specimens are seemingly in good condition and either entire or nearly so. If I had been more serious about this and examined the samples only 1 day later I am sure I could have got material in even better condition. The specimens are now fixing in formalin and I will soon have to no excuse for not looking at them! I don't know if this method has been selective; possibly some taxa have remained invisible in their holes. But my impression from seeing lots of polydorids, cirratulids and syllids, plus a few other families in smaller numbers, is that nearly everything has come out. Just thought that some of you may be interested in this result. Bye Robin Robin Wilson Museum of Victoria 71 Victoria Crescent Abbotsford 3067 Australia telephone (61) 3 9284 0216; fax (61) 3 9416 0475 rwilson@mov.vic.gov.au Polychaetes of Australia URL http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/poly -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Wed Jul 23 15:32:26 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id PAA25960 Message-Id: <199707232232.PAA25960@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:01:29 +0100 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Pedro Fidalgo Subject: Aquaculture of polychaetes Dear annelidans, I am a phD student at Lisbon University and I work on biology, ecology of Hediste diversicolor. I would be most grateful if anyone has any recent information, literature or references, especially on small scale culture and aquaculture of polychaetes. Thanks in advance. Pedro Fidalgo e Costa Laboratorio Maritimo da Guia Estrada do Guincho, 2750 CASCAIS - PORTUGAL e-mail: -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Fri Jul 25 18:01:43 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id SAA27090 Message-Id: <199707260101.SAA27090@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:54:37 +0000 Subject: Polychaete TV news star? Hello folks, Star is a bit of an exaggeration of course but one must make the most of the rare moments when a polychaete may have made it onto the little screen across the planet. The occasion - one of those tantalisingly brief 'scientists discover new life forms' items that the TV news people sometimes will give us between the murders, the mayhem, and the politics. Probably recirculated from one of the big news gatherers. I think it was a report from deep-sea research off Japan. There it was for about 3 seconds, sculling across the screen towards the camera, transparent, segmented, and 'about the size of a paper clip' according to the voice-over. It looked rather like a planktonic polychaete. Did my eyes deceive me? Did anyone else see it? -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Sat Jul 26 15:49:23 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id PAA09678 Message-Id: <199707262249.PAA09678@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: SRice1947@aol.com Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:25:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Polychaete TV news star? I saw that news clip also but the images flashed across the screen so fast that it was difficult to make a positive ID. I've seen many pelagic polychaetes from submersibles but I couldn't tell what that one was. I did see a colonial salp and a ctenophore during the same report and I remember the news person quoting the researchers as saying that you could find a new species about once each year! HA! You can find a new species every dive if you have the facilities to collect specimens!! Stan Rice Univ. of Tampa -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Tue Jul 29 19:04:47 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id TAA07685 Message-Id: <199707300204.TAA07685@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Tomoyuki Miura Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 18:13:07 +0900 Subject: Re: Polychaete TV news star? Dear Colleagues, Unfortunately, I could not see the TV news, but the researcher on this news called on me this afternoon and asked if I could identify the polychaete worm. The researcher's name is Dr. James Hunt charged at Japan Marine Science and Technology Center. He said to me also to send a Quick Time Movie file (or a video tape) on the problem polychaete. I am not a specialist of pelagic polychaetes, but I will try to check it. By the way, if those who saw this news have any idea on this polychaete in the point of view taxonomy, please help us to identify it, even on generic or more higher level (family, order, etc.). We have a star who lives in deep mid-water in Sagami Bay, but we do not know yet who it is. The TV news appears to be well known world wide, but I could not see it. I am now waiting to have the video tape. Until now I could received two video stills. After them, I think the problem species are close to both Yndolacia and Flota. This polychaete have 9 setigerous parapodia with two bandles of long setae, but no appendage on the head region. When I will receive the video tape, I think to describe the morphology more clearly. Tomo ---------------------------------------- Tomoyuki Miura Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University 4-50-20 Shimoarata, Kagoshima 890, Japan Tel: +81-99-286-4272 Fax: +81-99-286-4015 ---------------------------------------- -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Thu Jul 31 17:22:35 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id RAA09839 Message-Id: <199708010022.RAA09839@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Bob Podolsky Subject: Information on free-spawned eggs [My apologies if you receive this request from more than one group.] I would be grateful for any information on the size of ova and of their accessory structures (jelly coats, follicle cells, test cells, hulls, etc.). Although such paired measurements are routinely taken, I am finding that they are often not published. I am collecting this information as part of a broad survey of the relative contributions of ovum and accessory structure(s) to the size of the target for sperm (i.e. average cross-sectional area of the entire egg with its investments). Therefore, it would be helpful to know (1) average diameters for ovum and accessory structure(s) before fertilization, (2) whether large changes occur at fertilization, and (3) whether the egg is roughly spherical or irregularly shaped. I am hoping to collect this information for as many free-spawning invertebrate, fish and algal species as possible. Internally-fertilizing relatives would also be helpful. Information for several species within a clade would be especially useful. I would like to synthesize this information for a presentation in early October at a conference on egg and embryo coats. All information will be gratefully acknowledged! If you have collected such information but do not have immediate access to it, please send a note anyway so that I can send a reminder. Thanks very much, Bob Podolsky __________________________________________________________________ Robert D. Podolsky, Ph.D. 408-655-6238 (lab) Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University 408-375-0793 (fax) Oceanview Boulevard 408-641-9130 (hme) Pacific Grove, CA 93950-3094 podolsky@leland.stanford.edu -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html From daemon Thu Jul 31 18:54:53 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.8.6/8.6.6) id SAA18712 Message-Id: <199708010154.SAA18712@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA (Nat. Inst. Water & Atmos. Research) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 13:09:00 +1100 Subject: Recent polychaete papers Hello folks, I thought I'd post a list of some of the papers that I have recently sighted. It is absolutely NOT a comprehensive list of all publications on polychaeta & allies over the last few months. In addition I have excluded all papers from IPC5 in Bulletin of Marine Science 60(2) [Already posted]. It is also not guaranteed error-free. Finally if anyone would like to post their own additional selections please go ahead. Here it is: AU Arvanitidis, Christos and Athanasios Koukouras. PY 1997 TI The genus Paradiopatra (Polychaeta, Onuphidae) in the Mediterranean with the description of Paradiopatra calliopae sp. nov. SO Ophelia 46(1): 51-63. AU Bock, Michael J. and Douglas C. Miller. PY 1997 TI Particle-bound organic matter as a cue for suspension feeding in tentaculate polychaetes. SO Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 215(1): 65-80. AU Bonsdorff, Erik and Thomas Pearson. PY 1997 TI The relative impact of physical disturbance and predation by Crangon on population density in Capitella capitata: an experimental study. SO Ophelia 46(1): 1-10. AU Briggs, R. P., R. J. A. Atkinson, M. Mcaliskey and A. Rogerson. PY 1997 TI Histriobdella homari on Nephrops norvegicus from the Irish Sea and Clyde Sea area. SO Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 77: 557-559. AU Bryan, P. J., P. Y. Qian, J. L. Kreider and F. S. Chia. PY 1997 TI Induction of larval settlement and metamorphosis by pharmacological and conspecific associated compounds in the serpulid polychaete Hydroides elegans. SO Marine Ecology Progress Series 146(1-3): 81-90. AU Cha, J.-H., D. Martin and M. Bhaud. PY 1997 TI Effects of temperature on oocyte growth in the Mediterranean terebellid Eupolymnia nuebulosa [sic for nebulosa] (Annelida: Polychaeta). SO Marine Biology 128(3): 433-439. AU Chandler, G. Thomas, Michelle R. Shipp and Teresa L. Donelan. PY 1997 TI Bioaccumulation, growth and larval settlement effects of sediment-associated polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons on the estuarine polychaete, Streblospio benedicti (Webster). SO Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 213: 95-110. AU Ferrero, Enrico A. PY 1997 TI Chemoreceptive responses of the polychaete Perinereis cultrifera in a Y maze to alternative bivalve host effluents. SO Ophelia 46(1): 35-49. AU Fromentin, J. M., F. Ibanez, J. C. Dauvin, J. M. Dewarumez and B. Elkaim. PY 1997 TI Long-term changes of four macrobenthic assemblages from 1978 to 1992. SO Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 77: 287-310. AU Gaill, Francoise, Bruce Shillito, Frederic Menard, Gerard Goffinet and James J. Childress. PY 1997 TI Rate and process of tube production by the deep-sea hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. SO Marine Ecology Progress Series 148: 135-143. AU Holmer, M., V. E. Forbes and T. L. Forbes. PY 1997 TI Impact of the polychaete Capitella sp. I on microbial activity in an organic-rich marine sediment contaminated with the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarban fluoranthene. SO Marine Biology 128(4): 679-688. AU Levin, L. A. and S. Edesa. PY 1997 TI The ecology of cirratulid mudballs on the Oman margin, northwest Arabian Sea. SO Marine Biology 128(4): 671-678. AU Lucas, Francoise and Georges Bertru. PY 1997 TI Bacteriolysis in the gut of Nereis diversicolor (O. F. Muller) and effect of the diet. SO Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 215(2): 235-245. AU Naylor, J. Reyn and Paul E. McShane. PY 1997 TI Predation by polychaete worms on larval and post-settlement abalone Haliotis iris (Mollusca: Gastropoda). SO Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 214(1-2): 283-290. AU Olive, Peter J. W., Joanne S. Porter, Nicholas J. Sandeman, Nigel H. Wright and Mathew G. Bentley. PY 1997 TI Variable spawning success of Nephtys hombergi (Annelida: Polychaeta) in response to environmental variation a life history homeostasis. SO Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 215(2): 247-268. AU Panganiban, G., S. M. Irvine, C. Lowe, H. Roehl, L. S. Corley, B. Sherbon, J. K. Grenier, J. F. Fallon, J. Kimble, M. Walker, G. A. Wray, B. J. Swalla, M. Q. Martindale and S. B. Carroll. PY 1997 TI The origin and evolution of animal appendages. SO Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94(10): 5162-5166. AU Parapar, J. and G. San Martin. PY 1997 TI ''Sedentary'' polychaetes of the Livingston Island shelf (South Shetlands, Antarctica), with the description of a new species. SO Polar Biology 17(6): 502-514 AU Pettibone, Marian H. PY 1997 TI Revision of the sigalionid species (Polychaeta) referred to Psammolyce Kinberg, 1856, Pelogenia Schmarda, 1861, and belonging to the subfamily Pelogeniinae Chamberlin, 1919. SO Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 581: 1-89. AU Purschke, Gunter. PY 1997 TI Ultrastructure of nuchal organs in polychaetes (Annelida) - new results and review. SO Acta Zoologica 78(2): 123-143. AU Rouse, G. W. and M. C. Gambi. PY 1997 TI Cladistic relationships within Amphiglena Claparede (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) with a new species and a redescription of A. mediterranea (Leydig). SO Journal of Natural History 31: 999-1018. AU Rouse, G. W. and A. B. Tzetlin. PY 1997 TI Ultrastructure of the body wall and gametogenesis in Cossura cf. longocirrata (Cossuridae Polychaeta). SO Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 32(1): 41-54. AU Schiedek, D. PY 1997 TI Marenzelleria viridis (Verrill, 1873) (Polychaeta), a new benthic species within European coastal waters - Some metabolic features. SO Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 211(1): 85-101. AU Sigvaldadottir, Elin, Andrew S. Y. Mackie and Fredrik Pleijel. PY 1997 TI Generic interrelationships within the Spionidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). SO Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 119(4): 473-500. -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Research resource = URL:http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html