The diversity and distribution of polychaetes in the coastal area and the EEZ of the Republic of Cyprus is presented based on both the literature records and new data acquired in a wide range of environmental monitoring programmes and research projects.

In the summer of 2021, marine fouling organisms associated with the pearl oyster Pinctada radiata in the natural habitat of Miyami area, Alexandria city, were surveyed, where samples were collected by scuba diving. Eighteen shells of variable sizes were

A steinkern of an endoceratid nautiloid siphuncle contains a Trypanites sozialis boring with a lingulate brachiopod Rowellella sp. shell inside. The steinkern of this endoceratid formed during early lithification of the sediment on the seafloor. The lithified