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McIntosh, W.C. (1869). On the structure of the British nemerteans, and some new British annelids. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 25(2): 305-433, plates IV-XVI.
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McIntosh, W.C.
1869
On the structure of the British nemerteans, and some new British annelids.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
25(2): 305-433, plates IV-XVI
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). The pdf is from google books. The BHL scan online is probably better quality
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The anatomy of the soft worms variously arranged under the Nemertean Order has, even in recent times, not been carried out with that completeness necessary for their thorough elucidation, a state of matters partly due to the confounding of the structure of one family with another, and predicating of the series what investigation has but proved in one group. Few British comparative anatomists have paid much attention to these animals; indeed, Dr George Johnston, Mr Harry Goodsir, and Dr Thomas Williams, are the only three who have left researches of any moment on the subject. The observations of the first-mentioned naturalist were made many years ago, with the aid of inferior instruments, and, though conscientious enough, are very meagre and unsatisfactory; and those of Dr Williams, while also showing the defects just noted, bear evident traces of imagination. Mr H. Goodsir's interpretation of structures was, from his limited observations, likewise very erroneous. On the Continent, again, the investigators have been more numerous, and a long list of distinguished names attest the interest which the subject has received at their hands. I do not deem it necessary on the present occasion to enumerate the older writers at full length, since this has already been accomplished very satisfactorily by MM. de Quatrefages and Keferstein, but shall refer to such of their views under the respective heads as may be required for the complete elucidation of the subject. Of those, however, who led the way to a more correct appreciation of the structure of these animals, I may particularise MM. Dugès, Blanchard, and de Quatrefages, in France; Ehrenberg, Rathke, Max Schultze, and Keferstein, in Germany; Œrsted, in Denmark; Van Beneden, in Belgium; Claparède, in Switzerland; and Delle Chiaje, in Italy.
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Holotype NHMUK 1921.5.1.4120, geounit North Unst, identified as Polycirrus tribullata McIntosh, 1869
 Depth range

90 fathoms (about 164.6 m). [details]

 Description

Original description by McIntosh (1869: 424): ''From the same source as the latter there is also the anterior ... [details]

 Editor's comment

McIntosh (1869: 424) stated that the single anterior fragment of Polycirrus tribullata described by him as a new ... [details]

 Etymology

Not specified in the original description. The specific epithet tribullata is a New Latin adjective composed by the ... [details]

 Etymology

not stated, but clearly after Wilhelm Keferstein who named Prionognathus genus, which McIntosh mentions here. [details]

 Habitat

Shelf depths, type of sediment not stated in the original description. [details]

 Homonymy

If this recombination was valid it would be a senior secondary homonym to Lepidonotus pellucidus Dyster in ... [details]

 Homonymy

Johnston used the genus Lepidonotus but he includes the MS name of Dyster, which was "Polynoe pellucida" As ... [details]

 Type locality

Scotland (NE Atlantic Ocean), in two different localities: 1) dredged in The Minch, off Lochmaddy, North Uist ... [details]

 Type locality

Off North Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Atlantic Ocean (gazetteer estimate 61.0°, -1.0°), 90 ... [details]