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Catalogue of Chaetopoda 



int<j three orders ^ — Tuliicoles, DorsilHanches and Abranches — using 

 the respmitory organs as the principal distinguishing character. In 

 the Tubicoles the gills are anterior, while in the Dorsibranches they 

 are situated along th(3 sides of the middle part of the body. Cuvier 

 further stated that the genera of the iirst two orders have bundles of 

 chaetae along their sides, serving as feet ; but some genera of the 

 third order do not possess these. He arranged the genera in their 

 orders thus : — 



I.— Les Tubicoles. II. — Les Dorsibranches III. — Les Abranches. 



Les Serpule.s. 

 Les Sabelles. 

 Les Terebelles. 

 Les Amphitrites. 

 Les Arrosoirs. 

 Les Dentales. 

 Les Siliqiiaires. 



Les Nereides. 



Les Eunices. 

 Les Spio. 

 Les Aphrodites. 

 Les Amphinonies. 

 Les Arenicoles. 



Les Lombrics. 

 Les Thalassemes. 

 Les Naides. 

 Les Sangsues. 

 Les Dragonneaux.' 



Lamarck ^ (1818) developed the basis of classification. Reused 

 additional morphological characters * in subdividing the Annelids 

 into three orders, in which he arranged the genera into families, 

 disposed as shown below : — 



Apodes."' 



Les Hirudinees. 

 Les Echiurees. 



Lombric. 



Thalasseme. 



Cirratule. 



Antennees." 



Les Aphrodites. 

 Les Nereidees. 

 Les Eunices, 

 Les Aniphinomes. 



S^dentaires.^ 



Les Dorsalees (Arenicole, 



Siliquaire) . 

 Les Maldanies (Clymene, 



Dentale). 

 Les Amphitrites. 

 Les Serpulees. 



Savigny^ adopted practically the same morphological characters ® 

 as aids to classification, but attached primary importance to the 

 presence or absence of chaetae. He formed four orders by grouping 

 the Annelids around four central genera, which gave their names to 



' Retained in new edition, iii (1830), and in " Iildit. de Disc." 



- Gordius. 



•'' Hist. Anim. sans Vert., v, 286. 



* Probably the introduction of these characters, especially the nature of the 

 chaetae, should be credited to Savigny, who in May 1817 had presented to the 

 Academie des Sciences an account of his researches on the classification of 

 Annelids, and in July of the same j'ear the first part of his classical memoir, 

 which was not published until 1820. 



® No feet ; no feelers ; respiratory structures, if any, internal. 



'• Definition as under Nereideae of Savigny (see p. 13). 



'' Definition as under Serpuleae of Savigny (see p. 13). 



" Syst. des Annel. (1820), p. 5. 



'^ See footnote ('') above. 



