Hello all,
I'm thinking about doing a correlation study between the morphology of errant
polychaetes and the texture of the substrate they live and crawl on. I'm
mostly working with Nereis diversicolor, but since it is very much a generalist
and is found in a wide range of substrates from sand to clay then I'm
searching for some more specialised polychaetes (it is important that they
resemble Nereis approximately with well developed parapodia and an active
crawling life-style). I'm especially interested in very specialized species found
only on rocks/reef or commensals on other organisms and then compare
that to species specialized to live in fine mud or very soft and slippery
substrate. If any of you know of some species which fit into this description,
then I would be interested to know about them no matter where in the world
they can be found.
Thanks for the attention,
Thomas
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Thomas Hesselberg
Biomimetics Group
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Bath, BA2 7AY
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0) 1225384339
E-mail T.Hesselberg at bath.ac.uk
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Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.co.nz>
http://www.annelida.net/
