Polytraits: a database on biological traits of polychaetes

url: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/

Polytraits is a database on biological traits of polychaetes (bristle worms, Polychaeta: Annelida). It covers information about morphological, behavioral, reproductive and larval characteristics of polychaete taxa which has been collected from the literature.

The project was initially started as an in-house project of the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR). Traits were initially collected for an ecological analysis of polychaetes in Mediterranean lagoons, but since then the database has been continuously expanded to provide data for other analyses as well.