BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WOODS HOLE AND VICINITY. 



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Nereis limbata Ehlers. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 590, 318, etc.; An- 

 drews, "1892, p. 176; E. B. Wilson, 1892, p. 371; 

 Bumpus, 1898, iSgSb; Mead, in "Biological 

 Notes." 



Charleston to Massachusetts Bay. Verrill. 

 Woods Hole, at surface. Bumpus. Survey 

 records*: New Bedford, on piles; Fort Phoenix, 

 beach; Wareham River, muddy bank, be- 

 tween tides; rocky shore at end of Scraggy 

 Neck; West Falmouth Harbor; Head of Lagoon 

 Pond; Katama Bay at two points. (Collected 

 by R. C. Osburn and L. J. Cole.) 



Wilson states of this species and Platynereis 

 megalops that oviposition at Woods Hole 

 continues "at least from June to September," 

 the most favorable time apparently being 

 August and early September. He adds that 

 "the animals appear in abundance only on 

 warm, still nights, and even tn*en are rarely 

 found unless the water has been quiet for some 

 days." Mead records the spawning of this 

 worm at Wickford, R. I., May 31, 1899. 



Verrill expresses the opinion that this species 

 " must contribute largely to the food of many 

 fishes." 

 f Nereis dumerilii Audouin & Milne Edwards. 



Tarpaulin Cove; eastern end of Vineyard Sound 

 (twice); Buzzards Bay (once); 3 to 10 fathoms, 

 sand and gravel. Survey. 



Fish Hawk station: 7525 bis (i) *, 7615 (i)*; 

 Phalarope station 2 (i) *. 



Nereis sp . undetermined . 



Fish Hawk station 7560 (several small). 



Plctynereis megalops (Verrill). [Chart 60.] 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 592, 400 (Nectonereis 

 megalops, sp. nov.); Verrill, 1879, p. 171 

 (Nereis alacris), p. 172 (Nereis megalops); i882d, 

 p. 370 (Nereis megalops); 1884, p. 665 (Nereis 

 megalops); Andrews, 1892, p. 170 (Nereis 

 alacris); E. B. \Vilson, 1892, p. 371 (Nereis 

 megalops); Bumpus, i&gSb (Nereis megalops). 



Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Inshore stations of 

 Buzzards Bay, common; a few scattered sta- 

 tions in the Sound ; dredged by the Survey in 

 3 to 15 fathoms of water, on various bottoms; 

 also dug from shores at Lagoon Pond, near 

 bridge *, and from Katama Bay *. 



Fish Hawk station *: 7524 (2), 7525 (2), 7548 (i), 

 7724 (i), 7725 (3), 7740 (3), 7763 (i large). 



Phalarope station *: 8 (i), 33 (i), 78 (i small), 

 81 (i male), 86 (i), 87 (common), 108 (several 

 with ripe eggs), in (common), 115 (i), 116 (i), 

 117 (common), 122 (2), 130 (several small), 

 132 (i), 140 (, 141 (2), 149 (i), 165 (i young). 



" The specimens here recorded may 



megalops Continued . 

 The sexual form is also common at the surface 

 during the summer. (See statements by 

 Wilson, under Nereis limbata). As in the case 

 of other species of this family, the immature 

 and the sexual forms were at first referred to 

 different species. The former, in the present 

 instance, was the Nereis alacris of Verrill. 



Family EUNICID^E. 



Marphysa leidyi Quatrefages. [Chart 61.] 



Verrill and Smith. 1873, p. 593, 319, etc. 



Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Dredged at several 

 stations in the eastern end of Vineyard Sound, 

 and at several inshore stations of Buzzards 

 Bay; 3 to 15 fathoms, on various bottoms. 

 Survey. 



Fish Hawk station *: 7521 bis (fragments of two), 

 7522 bis (i fragment), 7525 bis (fragment), 

 7535 bis (i fragment), 7615 (i), 7616 (i), 7672 

 (i fragment), 7777 (? i small fragment). 



Phalarope station*: i (i), 3 (i), 10 (i), 118 (i), 

 147 (i small). 



Lycidice americana Verrill. 



Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 593, 508 (sp. nov.). 

 Off Gay Head in 10 fathoms, soft mud. 



Family ONUPHID^. 



Diopatra cuprea Claparede. [Chart 62.] 

 Verrill and Smith, 1873, p. 593, 346, etc. 

 Vineyard Sound. Verrill. Tubes dredged in 

 great numbers, on all kinds of bottoms and at 

 all depths, throughout the entire Sound and 

 Bay ; living specimens not once taken with the 

 dredge. Survey. Recorded from shores at 

 Nobska Point, Bay side of local breakwater, 

 West Falmouth, North Falmouth, Lagoon 

 Pond, Katama Bay, Robinson's Hole, Round 

 Hill Point, Fort Phoenix. 



Fish Hawk stations: 7523 (i tube), 7524 bis 

 (i tube), 7525 bis (few tubes), 7526 (several 

 tubes), 7527 (2 tubes), 7528 (2 tubes), 7530 bis 

 (i tube), 7532 (several), 7532 bis (few tubes), 

 7533 bis (several tubes), 7534 (few), 7535 (few), 

 7535 bis (i tube), 7537 (tubes), 7537 bis (few 

 tubes), 7538 bis (few), 7541 bis (few), 7543 bis 

 (2 tubes), 7545 bis (i tube), 7547 bis (several), 

 7549 (numerous tubes), 7549 bis (few), 7550 

 bis (few), 7554 (i tube), 7554 bis (several 

 tubes), 7558 (several tubes), 7559 (i tube*), 

 7560 (i tube), 7572 (i tube), 7576 (i tube), 7578 

 (many tubes), 7579 (i tube), 7580 (i tube), 

 7581 (i tube), 7584 (i tube), 7587 (i tube), 

 7588 (few tubes), 7593 (i tube), 7597 (i tube), 



be a phase o{ A', megalops. Moore. 



