Detection of a novel species complex of shell‐boring polychaetes in the northeastern United States

• Published in: Invertebrate Biology
• Main Authors: Silverbrand, Samantha J., Lindsay, Sara M., Rawson, Paul D.
• Other Authors: University of Maine, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Burrows; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12343; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ivb.12343; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/ivb.12343; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/ivb.12343

Abstract Infestations of commercially cultured eastern oysters ( Crassostrea virginica ) by shell‐boring spionid polychaetes are common in the northeastern United States. Historically, infestations were attributed to Polydora websteri , also known as mud‐blister worm. Among samples of shell‐boring w...