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Fig. 18 

 Tubes of Diopatra cuprea Bosc in mud flats along Delaware Bay 1 . 



Diopatra cuprea Bosc (Plumed Worm) 



PLATE XII. Fig. 2; Fig. 18 



As much as a foot in length and V2 inch broad. 

 Lives in a parchment-like tube, the tops of which 

 project two or three inches above the surface of mud 

 flats and are often covered with bits of debris, sea- 

 weed, etc. The tubes may extend three feet or more 

 obliquely into the mud. The worm is reddish brown 

 in color, specked with gray. Many-branched red 

 gills are conspicuous from the fifth segment to the 

 posterior end of the animal. The appendages are 

 yellowish brown and green. Common in mud flats 

 along the whole New Jersey coast and dredged to 

 six fathoms off Cape May, New Jersey. Cape Cod 

 to South Carolina. 



