X-ray microtomography study of the anatomy of laubieriopsis cabiochi (Amoureux, 1982) (annelida, fauveliopsidae)

Abstract

Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT or µCT) is a microstructural, non-destructive, technique that allows the study of the external and internal anatomy of biological samples, and then allows for their reconstruction through 3D-virtual models. In the last years, this technique is providing significant advances in the knowledge of the anatomy of several marine invertebrate taxa. In this paper, we study the external and internal anatomy of Laubieriopsis cabiochi (Amoureux, 1982) (Annelida, Fauveliopsidae), comparing the quality of µCT images against those shown in previous works and obtained by classic histological methods.