‘Hitchhiker’ polynoid polychaetes in cold deep waters and their potential influence on benthic soft bottom food webs

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Schiaparelli, Stefano, Alvaro, Maria Chiara, Bohn, Jehns, Albertelli, Giancarlo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2010
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Ross Sea
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102010000210; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102010000210

Abstract We describe a new association for Antarctica, involving an holothuroid host, Bathyplotes bongraini Vaney, 1914, and a parasitic polynoid polychaete, Eunoe opalina McIntosh, 1885, which lives on the host body. Both species have never been recorded in the study area, the Ross Sea. The ecologi...