Deep-sea

Diversity of deep-sea scale-worms in the CCFZ: the most oligotrophic site is also the most diverse?

The Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ) harbours the largest field of polymetallic nodules in the world potentially holding 34 billion metric tons of manganese that could represent at least 25 trillion USD.

New genera and species of polynoids provide phylogenetic insights into deep-sea scale-worms

This paper was published end 2018 after two long years of work and I would like to remember it :D The family Polynoidae is one of the six polychaete families of scale-worms, so-called because they are covered by some sort of scales on dorsal side (often lost).