given below and full references to these and 

 other papers consulted during the course of 

 the work will be found at the end of this report. 

 For the benefit of later workers it may be men- 

 tioned that several papers were found to be 

 particularly useful. An early paper by Andrews 

 (1891a) describes several new species. Hartman 

 (1945) de.scribes many new species and gives 

 keys and ecological notes of these and the 

 other species recorded by earlier workers. In 

 all she deals with 104 species found on the 

 intertidal banks and shallow waters around 

 Beaufort. Hartman (1951), in her account of the 

 fauna of the Gulf of Mexico, describes a few 

 more species which occur in North Carolina. 

 Pettibone (196:;a). in an account of the families 

 Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae of New 

 England, lists several records from deeper 

 waters off North Carolina, and hei- keys and 

 descriptions are most useful. Most of the other 

 papers give lists of species without descriptions. 



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In the pages that follow, all the species re- 

 corded in these papers ha\e been extracted 

 and added to the records obtained from the 

 present collections. For the sake of brevity, the 

 authority for each record is shown by a number 

 which refers to the list above. Thus a I'ecord ijy 

 Stimpson (1856) is shown by the figure 1, while 

 records of the 240 species obtained from the 

 present collection are shown by an asterisk. It 

 should be noted that such records were not all 

 made on the Beaufort Shelf Tran.sect. In addi- 

 tion to the 229 species collected on the tran- 

 sect, I dredged a few s])ecies at the entrance to 

 Beaufort Inlet and coik'cted others from the 

 shores of Fivers Island. I also wish to thank 



Dr. Charlotte Mangum for the three species of 

 Maldanidae from the shoals in Beaufort Sound, 

 Dr. Larry McCloskey for many specimens from 

 corals in 6.5-18 m near Lookout Lighthouse, 

 Dr. Fred Grassle for specimens from 450 and 

 600 m on the continental slope, and Dr. Robert 

 Menzies for three interesting abyssal .species 

 from 3,020 m off Beaufort. In all, 323 species 

 are now known from North Carolina: ofthe.se 19 

 are new species, 2 are new subspecies, 16 are 

 new records for the United States, and 105 are 

 new records for North Carolina. 



The new taxa and new records for the United 

 States have been described and references to 

 one or more good descriptions have been given 

 for the rest. Some of the records are douijtful, 

 but it was felt that so long as the authority for 

 the record could be traced from the numbered 

 list of papers above, even these doubtful records 

 should be included for the sake of completeness. 

 For the nonspecialist, the mo.st useful items in 

 this pa{)er are the keys to the various families 

 and the distribution lists of the species. The.se 

 are as complete as possible. All the 323 re- 

 corded species have been included and a few 

 other s])ecies known from adjacent areas have 

 been added. They have been marked "no N.C. 

 record" but they will probably be found there 

 in the future. The keys make an initial separation 

 of the genera whose names are given in jiaren- 

 theses and the specific characters of the species 

 are then added. In some cases additional char- 

 acters have been added in stjuare brackets to 

 exclude closely I'elated species. 



It is well known that the marine fauna of 

 North Carolina is subtropical and this is equally 

 true of the Polychaeta. Many tro])ical species 

 extend northward from Florida and the Carib- 

 bean and many Carolinean species extend 

 southward to the Gulf of Mexico. Then there 

 are a small numt)er of cold-water Virginian 

 s])ecies which reach North Carolina. All of 

 the.se are what might be called North American 

 endemics, since many of the warmwater forms 

 also occur on the Pacific coasts of Mexico and 

 Califoi'nia. I'olychaete worms are notoriously 

 widespread and, in addition to the.se endemics, 

 there are many species that extend across the 

 Atlantic to Europe and North West Africa. Others 

 are circumtr()i)ical or truly cosmopolitan. 



Within the limits of North Cai^olina. there are 

 faunistic differences between the sounds and 



