Leidy, Joseph. (1888). Chaetopterus from Florida [meeting report, February 14, 1888]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia. 40: 73-74.

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Leidy, Joseph

1888

40: 73-74

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World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)

Full text is: "Chaetopterus from Florida: — Prof Leidy directed attention to specimens which were collected in the trip of Prof Heilprin and Mr. Willcox, at the mouth of the Manatee River. The species appears to be the Chaetopterus pergamentaceus of Cuvier, originally described from specimens from the West Indies. It is a remarkable form. It belongs to the Tubicolae or tube-living worms, but unlike most of these, is devoid of the numerous cephalic appendages, or tentacles and gills. The tube is membranous and laminated in structure and it has the appearance of parchment. The two tubes collected are 16 inches long by 3/4ths of an inch in diameter, and tapering towards the ends. An incomplete worm, not well preserved on account of its delicacy, in its present condition is 9 inches long, and appears very narrow in comparison with the capacity of its tube. The anterior division of the body, about an inch long, is flattened, and about half as wide, but narrowing behind, and is composed of eight podal segments provided with dense bunches of lustrous, golden setae. The succeeding segment, long and narrow, is provided with a pair of wing-like appendages an inch long, and each furnished with two bundles of diverging setae. Then follow five long narrow segments with large membranous appendages, without setae. The terminal segments, of which 15 remain in the specimen, are furnished with pairs of long pointed appendages with bundles of setae."

Florida

Annelida
Polychaeta

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