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- noun Plural form of
polychaete .
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Examples
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The coral is home to 12 inch long sea worms called polychaetes, which use their large powerful jaws to snap at prey.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Yellowfin sole, Alaska plaice, and rock sole consume mostly infaunal prey such as polychaetes, clams, and echiuran worms.
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Yellowfin sole, Alaska plaice, and rock sole consume mostly infaunal prey such as polychaetes, clams, and echiuran worms.
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Cold-water species may decline in abundance along with some clams and crustaceans, while warm water polychaetes, blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), and other types of benthos may increase.
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The toxic effects of the oil caused a temporal reduction of the macroinfauna (amphipods, echinoderms, molluscs), with a simultaneous dramatic increase of opportunist polychaetes.
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Soft sediments also accumulate on seamounts and the dominant organisms occurring here are the polychaetes (a type of worm).
Seamount 2008
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Some polychaetes such as the sea mouse Aphrodite aculeate also bear a ventral muscular, creeping sole; myzostomids have a circular body with fused parapodia, which also forms a ventral foot like structure.
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Spitsbergen, marine sponges, polychaetes, a marine mollusc (_ancilodoris_), and some marine gammarids.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Many creatures lack names or are hard to pronounce like loriciferans, polychaetes or copepods.
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010
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Many creatures lack names or are hard to pronounce like loriciferans, polychaetes or copepods.
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