Nancy is right, but seamount papers only on polychaetes aren't common. Here is one as a starter (often publisher websites will show links to papers that have since cited a paper), and also the Censeam (http://censeam.niwa.co.nz/) and INDEEP (http://www.indeep-project.org/) websites would be useful to check.
Geoff
Surugiu, V.; Dauvin, J. C.; Gillet, P.; Ruellet, T. 2008. Can seamounts provide a good habitat for polychaete annelids? Example of the northeastern Atlantic seamounts. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers 55(11): 1515-1531 Two seamount groups in the northeastern Atlantic were investigated during the 1980s and 1990s: the first was located along the Iberian and African coasts (Galicia. to the north of Portugal; and the Ampere, Gorringe, Josephine and Seine banks near the Madeira-Canary Islands) and the second was located offshore of the southern part of the Azores Islands, included the Atlantis, Hyeres, Irving, Meteor and Plato banks. Among the invertebrates, Annelida, specifically Polychaeta, were studied as surrogates for the biogeographical relationship between coastal and mid-oceanic seamounts in the northeastern Atlantic and the fauna in these areas. The dominant families were Onuphidae (27.46%), Syllidae (18.23%), Eunicidae (15.65%), Amphinomidae (11.45%) and Nereididae (5.61%), representing 78.4% of the total fauna. Data analyses clearly distinguished two seamount groups, one for coastal seamounts and the other offshore. Although the species distinguished and the family composition at the sampled sites were different (i.e., most diversified at the Josephine site and most impoverished at the Irving site), no coastal/offshore faunal impoverishment gradient could be identified. Thus, it seems that seamount environments do not favour any relationship between planktotrophic development and the direct development of polychaetes. Though the number of apparent endemic species was low (<7%), it remained in keeping with other invertebrate groups. Still, while seamounts may well encourage oceanic biodiversity in some zoological groups, this was clearly not the case for the polychaetes. We offer two explanations for this paradox: pelagic productivity and local environmental conditions
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Sent: Tuesday, 2 July 2013 3:18 p.m.
To: Xuwen Wu
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Subject: Re: [Annelida] research progress of polychaetes from deep sea
Dear Xuwen,
If you do something as simple as a Google search using your keywords, you
will find many papers published on the subject of deep sea polychaetes,
including those from seamounts. It will be more satisfying for you if you
do your own research, rather than asking the people on this list.
Nancy
Nancy J.Maciolek, PhD
Zootaxa Subject Editor: Polychaeta
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Xuwen Wu <francis2008 from 163.com> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>>>> Could anybody share me some information about the research progress of
> polychaetes from deep sea (especially seamount), such as how many species
> have been recorded, which families are commonly seen, the
> <app:ds:sampling>
> sampling <app:ds:method> method and <app:ds:research> research
> <app:ds:technique> technique for specimens from deep sea, and so on.
>>>> I would appreciate if you give me a list of related literature or introduce
> some websites.
>>>> Thank you for your attention,
>>>> Xuwen
>>> Department of Marine Organism Taxonomy and Phylogeny
> Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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