Lycastopsis pontica (Bobretzky, 1872) 



Lycastopsis tecolutlensis. - Hartman, 1951: 44. 

 Lycastopsis pontica. - Pettibone, 1963a: 150, 

 Fig. 41. 



Records. — No North Carolina record. 



Distribiitiou. — Massacliusetts to Virginia and 

 Mexico; West Indies and Brazil; Mediterranean 

 and Black Sea; Japan; central California; inter- 

 tidal and estuarine. 



Ceratocephale loveni Malmgren, 1867 



Chau)io)iiy}ichns lovoii. - Hartman, 1942a: 49, 



Fig. 83-84. 

 Ceratocephale loveni - Pettibone, 1963a: 152, 



Fig. 42 a-b. 



R(ci)rds. — Five specimens from 40 m off 

 Beaufort { * ) . 



Distrihiitioii. — North Atlantic from Norway 

 to the North Sea and Iceland to Virginia; 

 Okhotsk Sea: from 40 to 2,000 m. 



Laeonereis culveri (Webster. 1879) 



Nereis culveri. - Webster, 1886: pi. 6.: Fig. 

 25-30. pi. 7: Fig. 31-32. 



Laeo)iereis culveri. - Hartman, 1945: 21. - Petti- 

 bone, 1971: 14, Fig. 5-7. 



Records. — On the shores of Beaufort Sound 

 (8, 11, 13, 18). 



Distributio)!. — Connecticut to Gulf of Mexico, 

 Florida, West Indies, Brazil and Uraguay ; inter- 

 tidal and estuarine in muddy sand. 



Websterinereis trident ata (Webster. 1880) 



Nereis trideutata Webster, 18S0: 113; 1886: 142, 



pi. 7: Fig. 33-40. 

 Ceratonereis trideiitata. - Hartman, 1945: 21, 



pi. 3: Fig. 3. 4. 

 Laeonereis n. sp. - McCloskey, 1970: 26. 

 Websterinereis Iridentatu. - Pettibone, 1971: 21, 



Fig. 8, 9. 



Description. — Body slender, 20-30 mm long, 

 mainly pale but with brown marks at origin 



of palps and brown spots above parapodia. 

 Prostomium (Figure 5a) oval with a slight 

 groove between antennae. Tentacular cirri very 

 short, seldom reaching setiger 1. Proboscis 

 (Figure 5b, c) without paragnaths or soft papil- 

 lae on maxillary ring but with soft papillae on 

 basal ring; area VI with one papilla; areas 

 VII and VIII with one row of seven minute 

 papillae, the middle three often chitinized and 

 brown. Anterior feet (Figure 5d) with three 

 notopodial lobes and a slightly longer dorsal 

 cirrus. Setigerous lobe of neuropodium with 

 well marked presetal and postsetal lips. Pos- 

 terior feet (Figure 5f) with all lobes more 

 pointed and dorsal cirrus small in juveniles but 

 longer than superior lobe in adults. Notosetae 

 as homogomph spinigers in all feet. Neurosetae 

 include homogomph and heterogomph spinigers 

 and heterogomph falcigers. Blades of anterior 

 falcigers fairly long, almost rectangular with 

 longer spinules distally; blades of posterior 

 falcigers (Figure 5e) shorter and more hooked 

 with tip attached back by a tendon. 



Remarks. — The generic position of this spe- 

 cies has caused considerable difficulty. The pa- 

 pillae on the basal ring of the proboscis are 

 very small; in some specimens the whole pro- 

 boscis appears smooth; in others the three 

 papillae on area VII are brown and chitinized 

 like small paragnaths. Such specimens might 

 be refered to En nereis except that they lack 

 notopodial falcigers on posterior feet. A further 

 discussion will be found in Pettibone (1971:20) 

 who erected the genus Websterinereis with W. 

 tride))ta as the type-species. 



/?rc(-rf/.s-.— Off Beaufort in 3-40 m (11, 13. 14. 



18.20, *) 



Distribution. — New Jersey to Florida and the 

 Gulf of Mexico; 3-40 m. 



Ceratonereis irritablis (Webster. 1879) 



Nereis irritabilis Webster, 1879: 231, pi. 5: Fig. 



56-64; pi. 6: Fig. 65-69. 

 Cerato)iereis irritabilis. - Hartman, 1945: 20, 

 pi. 3: Fig. 7-9. 



Records. — Common off the shores of Beaufort 

 Sound and offshore in 10-80 m (3, 5. 11, 13, 18, 



19.21, '). 



Distribution. — Virginia to North Carolina; 

 intertidal to 80 m. 



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