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Material examined. — Grampus (Bache) 1914, Station 10161, off 

 Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, 35°23' N., 73*^14' W., 100-0 meters, 

 January 28; Station 10166, off South CaroHna, 32°33' N., 72°14' W., 

 100-0 meters, January 30; Station 10180, off Bermuda, 31°52' N., 

 65°14' W., 75-0 meters, February 18. 



Distribution. — CosmopoHtan, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean, 

 Antarctic. In surface waters. 



Genus Alciopa (Audouin and Milne-Edwards, MS.), Cuvier, 1830 



Halodora Greeff, 1876; type (original designation): Halodora reynaudii (Audouin 



and Milne-Edwards). 

 Greeffia Mcintosh, 1885; type (monotypy) : Grccffia oahuensis Mcintosh, 1885; 



=Alciopa reynaudii (Audouin and Milne-Edwards, MS.), Cuvier, 1830. 



Type (monotypy) : Alciopa reynaudii (Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 

 MS.), Cuvier, 1830. 



Alciopa reynaudii (Audouin and Milne- Edwards, MS.), Cuvier, 1830 



Figure 23 



Greeffia oahuensis Monro, 1930, p. 82, fig. 25. — Wesenberg-Lund, 1939, p. 35, 



fig. 23. 

 Alciopa reynaudii Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1833b, p. 238, pi. 15, figs. 6-11. — 



St0p-Bowitz, 1948a, p. 30, fig. 21.— Dales, 1957, p. 124, figs 34, 35.— Tebble, 



1960, p. 193. 

 Grccfia oahuensis Berkeley and Berkeley, 1958, p. 400. 



Description. — Length up to 50 mm., width up to 8 mm., segments 

 up to 60. Body relatively short, tapering slightly anteriorly and 

 considerably posteriorly. Prostomium extends slightly beyond the 

 2 very large globular lateral eyes, with 2 pairs short subulate frontal 

 antennae and a median antenna in the dorsal groove between the eyes. 

 Tentacular cirri 3 pairs, short, subulate. Parapodia terminating 

 distally in 2 small cirriform appendages. Setae compound. Both 

 dorsal and ventral cirri massive, foliaceous, ovate cordiform, somewhat 

 frilled, imbricated, covering the parapodia almost completely. With 

 prominent projecting brown glands, segmentally arranged dorsally 

 and ventrally at the bases of the parapodia. Proboscis with 2 long 

 lateral papillae (usually project conspicuously from the mouth; 

 fig. 23a). 



Material examined. — Grampus (Bache) 1914, Station 10195, 

 north of Bahamas (29° N., 76°23' W., 100-1 meters, February 28), 

 Station 10200, Straits of Florida (23°32' N., 81°48' W., 75-0 meters, 

 March 18). 



Distribution.- — Cosmopolitan, North and South Atlantic, Indian 

 Ocean, tropical Pacific, Antarctic. In sm*face waters. 



