Dear all,
During our Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos cruises in Papua New Guinea, we collected sunken wood that contained an echiuran within a smooth cavity. The gut of the animals contained wood shavings and there was no obvious connection to any other cavity. The anterior setae were especially robust and I assumed the worm used them to burrow in the wood.
If anyone is interested in seeing the samples, they are available through the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. I can put you on the right track to find them.
Cheers,
Stephane
> On May 29, 2017, at 6:47 AM, Simon, CA, Dr <csimon from sun.ac.za> <csimon from sun.ac.za> wrote:
>> Dear Chiara and everyone else who responded
>> Thank you very much for all the information provided. It seems that for the most part polychaete are probably secondary colonisers and are not true borders as are the many polydorid species.
>> Regards
> Carol
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> From: Chiara Romano <cromano from ceab.csic.es>
> Date: 2017/05/26 21:47 (GMT+02:00)
> To: José Eriberto Assis <eri.assis from gmail.com>
> Cc: Geoff Read <Geoffrey.Read from niwa.co.nz>, "Annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu" <annelida from magpie.bio.indiana.edu>, "Simon, CA, Dr <csimon from sun.ac.za>" <CSIMON from sun.ac.za>
> Subject: Re: [Annelida] wood-boring polychaetes
>> Hello all,
>> I agree with Geoff, we should distinguish between polychaetes that actively burrow and secondary colonizers. I don’t think I have ever encountered the first ones.
> However, I found various polychaetes that colonize the wood inside the burrows created by other organisms, so always co-occurring with live or rest of known wood-boring organisms (e.g. bivalves xylophagaids).
> For what I am aware, Sclerolinum Siboglinidae was originally described from wood and was recently found co-occurring with Xylophaga
>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238309601_A_case_of_co-occurrence_between_Sclerolinum_pogonophoran_Siboglinidae_Annelida_and_Xylophaga_Bivalvia_from_a_north-east_Atlantic_wood-fall> Dear Magdalena Georgieva is this the publication you were speaking about?
>> Dear Erica Keppel thank you for the citation of Gambi about Eunicidae boring in Posidonia and others seagrases (I did not know that)
>> Best regards,
> Chiara
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>>>>> Il giorno 26 mag 2017, alle ore 12:44, Chiara Romano <chromano from ucsd.edu<mailto:chromano from ucsd.edu>> ha scritto:
>> Hello all,
>> I agree with Geoff, we should distinguish between polychaetes that actively burrow and secondary colonizers. I don’t think I have ever encountered the first ones.
> I found various polychaetes that colonize the wood inside the burrows created by other organisms, so always co-occurring with live or rest of known wood-boring organisms (e.g. bivalves xylophagaids).
> For what I am aware, Sclerolinum Siboglinidae was originally described from wood and was recently found co-occurring with Xylophaga
>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238309601_A_case_of_co-occurrence_between_Sclerolinum_pogonophoran_Siboglinidae_Annelida_and_Xylophaga_Bivalvia_from_a_north-east_Atlantic_wood-fall> Dear Magdalena Georgieva is this the publication you were speaking about?
>> Dear Erica Keppel thank you for the citation of Gambi about Eunicidae boring in Posidonia and others seagrases (I did not know that)
>> Best regards,
> Chiara
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