Co-authored paper describing hydrothermal vent scale worms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) has been just published in Frontiers in Marine Science (sorry its not molluscs this time)! It is Open Access and free for all to read here: http://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00112/
In this paper, we described two new vent polynoides including Levensteiniella undomarginata Zhang, Chen & Qiu, 2018 and Branchinotogluma elytropapillata Zhang, Chen & Qiu, 2018; and also redescribed Lepidonotopodium okinawae Sui & Li, 2017 and Branchinotogluma japonicus Miura & Hashimoto, 1991 to include both sex forms. These scale worms are highly sexually dimorphic and in many cases the two sexes have been described as separate species or even genera, highlighting the importance of describing morphological characteristics of both sexes.
- Zhang Y, Chen C, Qiu J-W* (2018). Sexually dimorphic scale worms (Annelida: Polynoidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Okinawa Trough: Two new species and two new sex morphs. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5: 112. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00112