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, pl. XI, figs 5152.
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.—
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, pl.16, fig. 85.
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coast of
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None.
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Body soft, colour blood-red. Notochaetae within a chaetiger
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, 12 chaetae per parapodium anteriorly, gradually elongating from dorsal to ventral. Primary notochaetae in anterior chaetigers smooth, subdistally expanded with wings; posteriorly same form as those anteriorly, 36 chaetae per parapodium. Neurochaetae beginning on segment 8. Neurochaetae 1240. Uncini with short neck and straight to convex base (
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The above brief description is based on the
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description; however, there are insufficient data to allow us to fully code and differentiate this species. The original description has three illustrations: a lateral view of an uncinus that is short-handled (
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1) and two notochaetae that have winged tips.
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illustrations are very diagrammatic and not sufficient to characterise the species, therefore we have not reproduced them here.
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does not give a precise location as to where this species was collected, but indicates that the fauna described in this paper were collected from
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,
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,
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and in the vicinity of Atlantic City and at the mouth of Great Egg Harbour, both in
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,
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.
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described
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as having 25 notochaetigerous segments and uncini from chaetiger 8, and this description was repeated by
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.
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suggested that
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is a very variable species with 1631 notochaetigerous segments, neurochaetae starting on chaetigers 79, and 36 pairs of nephridia. Day suggested that as such variation is greater than typically exhibited by species of
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<emphasis id="B910EAA6FFA5FFE9FBCEA7FAC2B1A7D5" box="[1087,1205,1191,1216]" italics="true" pageId="54" pageNumber="55">Polycirrus</emphasis>
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, his specimen from
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,
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, with 2531 pairs of notochaetigers should be treated as a separate subspecies. We have elevated the subspecies to a full species (see
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<emphasis id="B910EAA6FFA5FFE9FD7AA7B3C4E2A613" box="[651,742,1261,1286]" italics="true" pageId="54" pageNumber="55">P. dubia</emphasis>
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above).
<bibRefCitation id="EFF54B45FFA5FFE9FCB7A7B3C5C2A613" author="Day, J. H." box="[838,966,1261,1286]" pageId="54" pageNumber="55" pagination="1 - 140" refId="ref60221" refString="Day, J. H. (1973) New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. In: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Report NMFS CIRC 375. For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. G. P. O., Seattle, pp. i - xiii + 1 - 140. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62852" type="book chapter" year="1973">Day (1973)</bibRefCitation>
examined material from Vineyard Sound,
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, identified by Verrill in 1881 (USNM 8165) and some fresh material from off Beaufort in
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; he documented some variation in the number of pairs of notopodia and nephridial papillae present. It seems likely that Day was in fact examining more than one species.
<bibRefCitation id="EFF54B45FFA5FFE9FD0DA60BC578A67B" author="Day, J. H." box="[764,892,1365,1390]" pageId="54" pageNumber="55" pagination="1 - 140" refId="ref60221" refString="Day, J. H. (1973) New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. In: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Report NMFS CIRC 375. For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. G. P. O., Seattle, pp. i - xiii + 1 - 140. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62852" type="book chapter" year="1973">Day (1973)</bibRefCitation>
also states that the
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of
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<emphasis id="B910EAA6FFA5FFE9FB59A60BC351A678" box="[1192,1365,1366,1389]" italics="true" pageId="54" pageNumber="55">Torquea eximia</emphasis>
Leidy
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is lost, the description is inadequate, and the original drawings are too small to show specific characters. We agree with
<bibRefCitation id="EFF54B45FFA5FFE9FF3EA6C6C74BA6A6" author="Day, J. H." box="[207,335,1434,1459]" pageId="54" pageNumber="55" pagination="1 - 140" refId="ref60221" refString="Day, J. H. (1973) New Polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. In: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Report NMFS CIRC 375. For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. G. P. O., Seattle, pp. i - xiii + 1 - 140. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 62852" type="book chapter" year="1973">Day (1973)</bibRefCitation>
and suggest that the species be treated as
<emphasis id="B910EAA6FFA5FFE9FCD5A6C6C5F2A6A6" box="[804,1014,1434,1459]" italics="true" pageId="54" pageNumber="55">species inquirenda</emphasis>
until additional material is available.
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