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Williams, Jason D. (2001). Polydora and related genera associated with hermit crabs from the Indo-West Pacific (Polychaeta: Spionidae), with descriptions of two new species and a second polydorid egg predator of hermit crabs. Pacific Science. 55(4): 429-465.
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10.1353/psc.2001.0037 [view]
Williams, Jason D.
2001
<i>Polydora</i> and related genera associated with hermit crabs from the Indo-West Pacific (Polychaeta: Spionidae), with descriptions of two new species and a second polydorid egg predator of hermit crabs
Pacific Science
55(4): 429-465
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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD)
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Polydora and related genera associated with hermit crabs from shallow subtidal coral reef areas of the Indo-West Pacific are described. Over 2000 hermit crabs were collected from localities in the Philippines and Indonesia between July 1997 and April 1999. In total, 10 species of polychaetes among five genera (Boccardia, Carazziella, Dipolydora, Polydora, and Tripolydora) were identified and described. Adult morphology of these species was investigated with light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The study includes the description of two new Polydora species, including the second known polydorid egg predator of hermit crabs. Six of the species burrow into calcareous substrata, living in burrows within live or dead gastropod shells or coralline algae attached to shells. Two species were found in mud tubes within crevices of gastropod shells inhabited by hermit crabs. The zoogeography and biodiversity of polydorids from the West Pacific are discussed. The diversity of polydorids from the Philippines is comparable with that of other central Pacific and Indo-West Pacific islands, but it is lower than that in areas of the North and Southwest Pacific; lower diversity probably reflects disparity in sampling efforts between these regions. A key to the Philippine polydorids is provided.
Greater Indonesia
Indo West Pacific Region
Philippines
Associations, Symbiosis, Commensalism (parasitism see *PAR)
Systematics, Taxonomy
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Nontype USNM 187516, geounit Batangas, identified as Boccardia berkeleyorum Blake & Woodwick, 1971
Nontype USNM 187517, geounit Batangas, identified as Boccardia berkeleyorum Blake & Woodwick, 1971
Nontype USNM 187518, geounit Mindoro Island, identified as Boccardia berkeleyorum Blake & Woodwick, 1971
Nontype AMNH 4246, geounit Batangas, identified as Boccardia berkeleyorum Blake & Woodwick, 1971
 Depth range

California (USA): intertidal. Vancouver Island (Canada): 4.5-13.5 m. Batangas and Mindoro (Philippines): intertidal ... [details]

 Depth range

Intertidal to 10 m. [details]

 Distribution

North Pacific Ocean: California (USA); Vancouver Island (Canada); Batangas and Mindoro (Philippines). [details]

 Distribution

Tropical Pacific and western Indian Ocean: Australia (Great Barrier Reef); Easter Island; Hawaii; Hawai'i; Marshall ... [details]

 Habitat

Boring species is calcareous materials. California (USA): in burrows in the shells of Tegula brunnea (Philippi, ... [details]

 Habitat

In mud tubes among rocks, sand, algae and sponges, at intertidal to subtidal depths. In Philippines found within a ... [details]