Records. — Common on intertidal mudbanks 

 from Cape Hatteras to Beaufort Sound (3, 5. 7, 

 11, 18, 15. 17, 18,20, *). 



Distributid)!. — Cosmopolitan in temperate and 

 subtropical waters. Mainly in intertidal mud 

 flats but may extend a few meters below. 



Eunice antennata (Savigny, 1820) 



Einiicc (DitrniKita. - Fauvel, 1953: 240, Fig. 118 

 f-g. - Day. 1967: 384, Fig. 17.2. k-q. - 

 Hartman, 1968: 711, Fig. 1-5. 



Einiirc nihra. - Hartman, 1945: 24; 1951: 55. - 

 Nonato and Luna, 1970b: 81. 



R(»i(t)-ks. — A careful comparison of E. <iii- 

 fciniatd from South Africa and E. nihiv from 

 North Carolina showed that the two are identi- 

 cal. In both, the acicula are pale with bevelled 

 and truncate or almost bilobed ends. 



Records. — Beaufort, intertidal to 40 m on 

 rock or coral (5, 11, 13, 20, *). 



Dif^fiihiitiiin. — Circumtropical; intertidal to 

 over 50 m, often on coral. 



Head notched in front; antennae with long, 

 poorly marked annulations; tentacular cirri and 

 anterior dorsal cirri also long and annulated. 

 Branchiae from setiger 3, at first with a single 

 filament but soon increasing to a maximum of 

 15 filaments and ending about middle of body 

 (setiger 53 in type). Acicular setae one or two 

 per foot, usually bidentate but occasionally 

 with an indication of a third tooth. Compound 

 setae falcigerous, strongly bidentate, with 

 bluntly ending guards. 



Remarks. — Fauchald has shown that Web- 

 ster's original name E. longicirrata is preoccu- 

 pied and that E. iceb.'^teri belongs to a group of 

 closely related species whose differences he 

 tabulated although some of the characters men- 

 tioned are of minor significance. E. iee/).'<teri is 

 also very close to E. peiniata (Miiller) from which 

 it differs in having blunt instead of pointed 

 guards to the falcigerous setae, in color mark- 

 ings, and in having articulated dorsal cirri. 



Record.'^. — Two specimens off Beaufort in 

 18-40 m (20 *). 



Disti-ihiitiiiH. — Bermuda; intertidal. 



Eunice uebsteri Fauchald. 1969 



Eunice irebsteri Fauchald, 1969: 12, Fig. 6 (with 



synonymy). 

 Einiice lonc/icirrata Webster, 1884: 31, pi. 12: 



Fig. 74-80. 

 [Non] Einiice (Nicidirni) loir/icirrata Kinberg, 



1865: .564. 

 Eunice peinnita. - McCloskey, 1970: 24. 



Description. — Body up to 120 mm long with 

 white bars on setigers 3 and 8 when fresh. 



Eunice filamentosa Gruhe. 1856 



Ennice filanioitosa. - Monro, 1933b: 65, text 

 Fig. 27. - Hartman. 1944a: 107. pi. 6: Fig. 

 123-126. - Day, 1967: 392, Fig. 17.5. f-h. 



Records. — Reefs and stones off Beaufort in 

 5-20 m (14.20, *). 



Distribution. — Tropical Atlantic from North 

 Carolina and Florida to the West Indies and 

 Ghana and Angola on West Africa; Pacific coast 

 of Mexico and Galapagos Islands; South Africa 

 (Natal); intertidal to 120 m. 



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Key to genera and species 



Tentacular cirri present 2 



Tentacular cirri absent. [Gills as simple filaments, (Hiialinor- 

 cia). Tube quill-like and translucent. Gills from setiger 24 

 onwards] H. tnbicnla 



Gills from setiger 4 or 5 with filaments arranged in spirals on 



a central axis. (Dioputra) 3 



Gills as single filaments or pectinately branched 4 



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