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1950a, p. 27; 1950b, p. 70; 1951, p. 56; 1953, p. 53.— Uschakov, 1955, p. 



242, fig. 74.— Fauvel and Rullier, 1959, p. 947. 

 Lumbrineris impatiens Hartman, 1945, p. 26. 

 Lumbrineris ireadwelli Hartman, 1956, pp. 253, 268, 288. 

 Lumbrinereis impatiens Clark, 1960, p. 23. 



Description. — Length up to 400 mm., width up to 5 mm. Para- 

 podia with presetal lobe short, rounded, with postsetal lobe longer, 

 conical in anterior region, becoming somewhat cirriform and erect 

 in middle and posterior regions. Anterior parapodia with simple 

 arched limbate capillary setae and simple hooded hooks beginning 

 on setigers 1-5, Simple hooks in anterior region with long limbate 

 region (appear as worn or incompletely formed limbate setae), grad- 

 ually becoming shorter in middle and posterior regions. Acicula and 

 setae yellow or pale. Proboscis with maxillae ii with 4-5 teeth; 

 maxillae iii each with 2 teeth; maxillae iv each with a single tooth. 

 Color: uidescent, pale pink. 



Biology. — Dredged on bottoms of ooze, mud, and mud mixed 

 with sand or gravel. 



Material examined.— Off Newfoundland (44°23' N., 61°22' W.) 

 to off Florida (28°36' N., 85°33' W.), numerous Albatross stations, 

 47 to 1,290 fathoms. 



Distribution. — A cosmopolitan species. Greenland, Iceland, 

 Great Britain to France, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence to Florida, West Indies, Gulf of Mexico, Red Sea, Persian 

 Gulf, Iranian Gulf, Indian Ocean, West and Southwest Africa, north 

 Japan Sea to Japan, Indochina, southern California. Low water to 

 1,290 fathoms. 



Genus Ninoe Kinberg, 1865 



Type (monotypy): Ninoe chilensis Kinberg, 1865. Contains only 

 one New England species. 



Ninoe nigripes Verrill, 1873a 



Figure 68,0-9 



Ninoe nigripes Verrill and Smith, 1874, p. 301. — Verrill, in Smith, Harger, and 

 Verrill, 1874, p. 40, pi. 5, fig. 3.— Verrill, 1881, pp. 301, 304, 308, 311.— 

 Webster and Benedict, 1884, p. 720; 1887, p. 724.— Sumner, Osburn, and Cole, 

 1913, p. 623.— Procter, 1933, p. 140.— Hartman, 1942b, p. 53, figs. 94-97; 

 1944a, p. 340, pi. 17, fig. 9. — Berkeley and Berkeley, 1954, p. 460.— Stickney, 

 1959, p. 15. 



Ninoe kinbergi Ehlers, 1887, p. 105, pi. 32, figs. 1-9.— Mcintosh, 1903, pp. 143, 

 159, pi. 10, fig. 25, pi. 12, figs. 26-28, text-figs. 7-8. 



Ninoe falklandica Monro, 1936, p. 156,fig. 28,a-L— Wesenberg-Lund, 1962, p.ll6. 



Ninoe nigripes gracilis Hartman, 1951, p. 61, figs. 1-2. 



Description. — Length up to 100 mm., width up to 4 mm., seg- 

 ments up to 150. Body elongate, slender, stouter anteriorly, taper- 



