Vasily I. Radashevsky

Feb 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Martin M. Hektoen |Torkild Bakken |Torbjørn Ekrem |Vasily I. Radashevsky

1 INTRODUCTION Marine sediments represent the largest ecosystem on Earth (Snelgrove, 1997). Among the macrofaunal groups inhabiting these sediments, polychaetous annelids are the most abundant (Hutchings, 1998). Despite their significant abundance, our current understanding of polychaete diversity remains incomplete. Only a fraction of the species has been discovered and described, leaving a large portion of the diversity unexplored (Appeltans et al., 2012; Pamungkas et al., 2019).