Proceedings of the International Polychaete conference held in Reykjavik, 2001. In particular the latest developments in cladistic inference of polychaete phylogeny were presented. Some studies applied recent molecular techniques, revealing unknown genetic relationships between the different families of polychaetous annelids.
From the Contents: Preface.- Taxonomy, systematics and evolution.- Morphology.- Ecology and larval biology.- Abstracts.- 109 additional abstracts.