About Regeneration of Alien Polychaete Polydora websteri (Annelida: Spionidae)
Journal: Russian Journal of Biological Invasions
Year: 2021

New data have been obtained on the regenerative capacity of the invading polychaete Polydora websteri Hartman in Loosanoff & Engle, 1943. The material was collected in 2019–2020 in the area of Sevastopol. Polychaetes were extracted from blisters in the valves of an exotic Black Sea oyster species—Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793). The mollusks were grown on an oyster farm. Polychaetes were kept in aquariums with filtered seawater at a temperature from 8.8 to 25.8°C and a salinity of 17.5–17.8‰.