Three new species of bacterivorous Chrysopetalidae and Microphthalmidae (Annelida) inhabiting a whale fall off eastern Australia

A natural whale fall was opportunistically trawled at ~1000 m depth during the 2017 research vessel ‘Investigator’ voyage whilst sampling bathyal and abyssal communities along the eastern Australian margin. Colonising the whale bones were a diverse assemblage of annelids including three new species of free-living Phyllodocida (Boudemos paulinae sp. nov., Pleijelius keni sp. nov. and Microphthalmus hvalr sp. nov.). The data has been acquired on the following RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V03 with links to additional metadata, datasets, events, deployments, publications etc. If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.