Polychaete worms, particularly those belonging to the family Spionidae, represent a significant challenge to marine mollusks through their shell-boring habits. These annelids penetrate the ...

A polychaete deep-sea worm filmed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute. Photo: Schmidt Ocean Institute/Instagram Deep sea explorers want you to break out the "jazz hands" for this creature.

Others compared the polychaete to everything from “eyelashes” to “toilet scrubbers.” There are around 8,000 known species of these marine worms, which range in size from a few millimeters ...

We examined the effects of an introduced marine polychaete, Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791), on the development of subtidal marine epifaunal assemblages. As an invader of hard subtidal substrata, ...

This study investigated the effects of the invasive polychaete Marenzelleria viridis (Marenzelleria) on the biogeochemistry of sandy marine sediments. A 27-day microcosm experiment was conducted to ...