The number of ornamental polychaetes sold in the UK and Germany each month.

<p>The estimated range and mean number of coco worms and fan worms sold on a monthly basis in stores participating in the retail telephone survey across the UK; Scotland, Wales and the north, midlands and south of England and Germany. The percentage of retailers selling marine stock is present in brackets next to the corresponding region.</p

“Types” of tropical polychaetes imported by TMC.

<p>“Types” of tropical polychaetes imported into the UK by TMC. a) “Midnight”, b) “Pink and white”, c) “Spiral”, d) “Yellow”, e) “Hard tube” from Bali; f) “Orange and white” from the Indian Ocean, g) “common” from Singapore, h) “cluster duster” from Dominican Republic, and i) “Caribbean” from the Philippines (photographs by J. Murray).</p

The source of marine ornamental stock in UK retail stores.

<p>Percentage of retailers across the UK; Scotland, Wales, the north, midlands and south of England and the UK mean, purchasing marine fan worms from TMC, KCC (a wholesaler based in Hull), importing directly themselves or a mixture of any of these (corresponding shading shown in legend). The number of retail stores that stock fan worms and answered this question is shown above the corresponding data bar.</p

The collection location and morphological features of <i>Sabellastarte</i> species traded in the UK.

<p>Taxonomic groupings (A–L) based on specimens from the Singapore, Philippines and Kenya supplied by TMC. Information listed includes the number of specimens in each group, their locality, defining morphological characters; thorax (<i>Thx</i>), dorsal lips (<i>dl</i>), radioles (<i>rds</i>), branchial crown (<i>bc</i>), crown web (<i>wb</i>), collar (<i>c</i>), thoracic chaetae (<i>thx ch</i>), abdominal chaetae (<i>ab ch</i>), ventral collar lappets (<i>vcl</i>) collar pockets (<i>cp</i>) and dorsal lobes (<i>dlb</i>), and a conclusion to which species from the genus the group is most closely suited with their known distribution (Knight-Jones and Mackie, 2003). Specimens from the Indo Pacific Ocean includes records from; Zanzibar, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, Hawaii & Western and Northern Australia.</p