Dear all,<div><br></div><div>Greetings from India. I am a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, India. I have recently helped initiate a project that tries to understand species distribution at a macro-scale level (latitudinal gradients) of intertidal sandy beach macrofauna along the Indian coasts.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In my samples, we do come across a lot of polychaetes, oligocheates, archiannelids etc. Currently we are looking at patterns on a very coarse taxonomic magnification. However, we would like to use the opportunity to work on the intertidal worms of I am currently exploring options with institutions/individuals who would be interested to collaborate on the taxonomy of these groups. <br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>In addition, I would really appreciate getting some direction/pointers on publications that deal with the above mentioned groups both at a broad taxonomic scale and also at a species level. Are there comprehensive guides to the polychaetes/archiannelids/oligochaetes of the Indo-Pacific?<br>
<br>Thanks for the help.<br><br>Best,<br>Naveen.<br><br><br>On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Paulo Lana <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lana@ufpr.br" target="_blank">lana@ufpr.br</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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