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Polychaetous annelids were collected during biodiversity surveys conducted by the King Abdulaziz University–Senckenberg Research Institute along the coast of Saudi Arabia. The aphroditoid polychaetes belonging to Iphionidae, Polynoidae and Sigalionidae are reported here, with comments on their distribution. Seventeen species are identified, two of which represent new records for the Red Sea.
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The scientific research cooperative between King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Faculty of Marine Sciences (FMS), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Senckenberg Research Institute (SRI), Frankfurt, Germany, within the framework of the Red Sea Biodiversity Project, during which the present material was collected, was funded by KAU Gant No. I/1/432-DSR. The author acknowledges KAU and SRI, with thanks, for technical and financial support.
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Wehe, T. New records of scale worms (Polychaeta: Annelida) from the Red Sea collected during the KAU–SRI biodiversity survey along the coast of Saudi Arabia. Families Iphionidae, Polynoidae and Sigalionidae. Mar Biodiv 47, 1131–1136 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0720-5
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