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Harmothoe (Eunoe) nodosa (Sars, 1860) 



Figure 9,a-c 



BunoS nodosa Malmgren, 1865, p. 64, pi. 8, fig. 4. — Procter, 1933, p. 135. — Petti- 

 bone, 1954, p. 217, fig. 26c; 1956a, p. 548.— Berkeley and Berkeley, 1956a, 

 p. 234.— Uschakov, 1955, p. 152, figs. 34-35. 



Eunoa nodosa Verrill, 1881, pp. 298, 303, 307, 311, 314.— Webster and Benedict, 

 1884, p. 700; 1887, p. 708.— Whiteaves, 1901, p. 86. 



Description. — Length up to 90 mm., width including setae up to 

 39 mm., segments 36, 37. Prostomium with cephaUc peaks short 

 and blunt or lacking. Elytra with fringe of long papillae on external 

 border; elytral microtubercles close set, low, flattened, semiglobose, 

 some bifid; elytral macrotubercles confined mostly to a single row 

 near external border, dark colored to pale yellow, nodular, with 

 roughened tips or a fascicle of short spikes. Color: dorsal surface of 

 body colorless or banded with olive brown; elytra yellow or tannish 

 mottled with reddish brown. 



Biology. — Dredged on bottoms of mud, stones, rubble, and various 

 combinations of mud, sand, stones, pebbles, gravel, rocks, and shells. 



Material examined. — Specimens from Labrador, Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence (Gaspe Bay, Bay of Chaleurs, south Anticosti Island), 

 Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, Massachusetts, 

 New Jersey, in 10 to 150 fathoms. 



Distribution. — Widely distributed in the Arctic. Also Bering 

 Sea, north Japan Sea, Iceland, Scandinavian coasts to English Channel, 

 Hudson Bay to New Jersey. In 10 to 690 fathoms. 



Harmothoe {Eunoe) oerstedi (Malmgren, 1865) 



Figure 9d 



Eunoe oerstedi Malmgren, 1865, p. 61, pi. 8, fig. 3. — Sumner, Osburn, and Cole, 

 1913, p. 618.— Pettibone, 1953, p. 46, pi. 23; 1954, p. 219, fig. 26d; 1956a, 

 p. 548.— Uschakov and Wu, 1959, p. 36. 



Eunoa oerstedi Verrill, 1881, pp. 290, 303, 306, 307. 



Description. — Length up to 80 mm., width including setae up to 

 30 mm., segments 37-42. Prostomium with cephalic peaks poorly 

 developed or lacking. Elytra with lateral fringe of papillae, with 

 numerous microtubercles one to many pronged; macrotubercles 

 branched, extremely variable in size, number, arrangement, and 

 shape, translucent or brownish. Color: dorsal surface dusky, dark 

 or greenish black; elytra mottled with brown and grey. 



Biology. — Found at low water in rocky tide pools (Sea Point near 

 Kittery, Maine, June 27, 1958). Dredged on various t}^es of bot- 

 tom — ^mud, sand, pebbles, gravel, stones, rocks, rubble, with shells, 



