Stair, John B. (1847). An account of Palolo, a sea worm eaten in the Navigator Islands, with a description by J.E. Gray. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 15: 17-18.
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Stair, John B.
1847
An account of Palolo, a sea worm eaten in the Navigator Islands, with a description by J.E. Gray.
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The Rev. J.B. Stair kindly presented numerous specimens of this Sea Worm to the British Museum, but unfortunately most of the specimens are broken into short pieces, and as yet I have not been able to discover any specimen with a head. It appears to be a new genus allied to Arenicola, which may be thus described:— . . .
Samoan Islands
South Tropical Pacific
Living resources, exploitation, fisheries
Systematics, Taxonomy