The Serpulidae are a large group of sedentary polychaetes inhabiting calcareous tubes. The
relationships within the group are poorly understood and taxonomy of the group is very …

Up to the 1950s, the Precambrian was regarded as unrewardingly unfossiliferous, records of
fossils being isolated, few in number and dubious. The change came with the discovery by …

Sea cucumbers are harvested and traded in more than 90 countries worldwide. They are
exploited in industrial and small-scale fisheries, nearly from pole to pole, especially in the …

A lthough reefs cover less than one quarter of 1 per cent of the marine environment, they are
considered to be amongst the most biologically rich and productive ecosystems on Earth …

Earlier studies in the tropical Indo-Pacific have grossly underestimated the richness of
macrofauna species at spatial scales relevant to conservation and management as a result …

The systematics of the commercially important swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
(Linnaeus, 1758), is revised and four distinct species, P. pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758), P …

The Collective Article'New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records' of the Mediterranean Marine
Science journal offers the means to publish biodiversity records in the Mediterranean Sea …

The Australian Stomatopod fauna is comprehensively revised. Two new genera, Belosquilla
and Quollastria, are recognized. Seventy-two species are newly reported from Australia, of …

The portunid crab fauna of the Arabian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the south coast of Oman and
Pakistan was investigated on the basis of new collections, re-examination of historic …

With the global emergence of multiresistant bacteria there is an increasing demand for
development of new treatments to combat pathogens. Bacterial cell–cell communication …