﻿MARINE 
  POLYCHAETE 
  WORMS 
  — 
  PETTIBONE 
  265 
  

  

  Description. 
  — 
  Length 
  60-155 
  mm., 
  width 
  5-14 
  mm. 
  See 
  key. 
  

   Color: 
  In 
  alcohol: 
  Iridescent, 
  uniformly 
  purplish 
  or 
  reddish 
  brown 
  

   (narrow 
  white 
  intersegmental 
  lines) 
  ; 
  ligules 
  of 
  parapodial 
  lobes 
  may 
  

   be 
  darkly 
  pigmented 
  (var. 
  neonigripes) 
  ; 
  tips 
  of 
  dorsal 
  cirri 
  may 
  be 
  

   black. 
  

  

  New 
  records. 
  — 
  ^Arctic 
  Alaska: 
  Off 
  Point 
  Barrow 
  base, 
  up 
  to 
  12.1 
  

   miles 
  from 
  shore, 
  18-87 
  fms., 
  on 
  various 
  combinations 
  of 
  stones, 
  

   gravel, 
  rocks, 
  large 
  perforated 
  rocks 
  (8 
  stations, 
  10 
  specimens). 
  

   Spitsbergen: 
  Spitsbergen 
  Sea, 
  U. 
  S. 
  S. 
  Alliance, 
  August, 
  1881, 
  sm-face 
  

   (heteronereid) 
  . 
  Bering 
  Sea 
  : 
  Albatross 
  Sta. 
  at 
  Nikolski, 
  Bering 
  Island, 
  

   1892, 
  and 
  Sta. 
  3496, 
  56°32' 
  N., 
  169°45' 
  W., 
  41 
  fms., 
  1893; 
  St. 
  George 
  

   Island, 
  Pribilofs, 
  1913, 
  1914, 
  low 
  tide 
  and 
  30 
  fms., 
  and 
  St. 
  Paul 
  Island, 
  

   Pribilofs, 
  lagoon 
  reef, 
  1915, 
  Hanna; 
  St. 
  Paul 
  Island, 
  Wm. 
  Palmer, 
  

   1890. 
  Southwestern 
  Alaska: 
  Albatross 
  Sta., 
  Unalaska, 
  Aleutians, 
  

   1888; 
  Akutan 
  Pass, 
  Chica 
  Islands, 
  1872; 
  Easka 
  Harbor, 
  sandy- 
  

   mud, 
  9-12 
  fms., 
  1873; 
  Anchorage, 
  Big 
  Koniuji 
  Islands, 
  Shu- 
  

   magin, 
  6-20 
  fms., 
  sand 
  and 
  rocks; 
  Port 
  Moller, 
  Alaska 
  Peninsula, 
  

   beach 
  to 
  17 
  fms., 
  sand, 
  1874; 
  KiUisnoo, 
  1897; 
  Chiniak 
  Bay, 
  Kodiak 
  

   Island, 
  1880; 
  all 
  collected 
  by 
  Dall. 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Alaska: 
  Albatross 
  Sta., 
  

   at 
  Observation 
  Island, 
  Cordova, 
  Alaska, 
  1914. 
  Southeastern 
  

   Alaska: 
  Sitka, 
  1932. 
  West 
  Coast 
  North 
  America: 
  Albatross 
  

   Sta. 
  89a, 
  Denman, 
  British 
  Columbia, 
  1914, 
  and 
  Sta. 
  3466, 
  off 
  Wash- 
  

   ington, 
  48°18'30" 
  N., 
  123°22' 
  W., 
  56 
  fms., 
  1891. 
  Washington 
  and 
  

   Puget 
  Sounds, 
  low 
  tide 
  to 
  166 
  fms, 
  (very 
  common), 
  Pettibone. 
  East 
  

   Coast 
  North 
  America: 
  Off 
  Labrador, 
  7-60 
  fms.. 
  Blue 
  Dolphin 
  

   Expeditions, 
  1949, 
  1951; 
  Woods 
  Hole 
  region, 
  intertidal 
  and 
  dredged, 
  

   Pettibone, 
  1950, 
  1951; 
  Gulf 
  of 
  St. 
  Lawrence, 
  New 
  Brunswick, 
  Nova 
  

   Scotia, 
  Bay 
  of 
  Fundy, 
  Maine, 
  Massachusetts, 
  Ehode 
  Island, 
  Con- 
  

   necticut, 
  Long 
  Island 
  Sound, 
  shore 
  to 
  250 
  fathoms 
  and 
  surface, 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Fish 
  Commission. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Widely 
  distributed 
  in 
  the 
  Arctic: 
  Siberian, 
  Alaskan, 
  

   and 
  Canadian 
  Arctic, 
  Davis 
  Strait, 
  Greenlaad, 
  Spitsbergen, 
  Barents 
  

   Sea, 
  Novaya 
  Zemlya, 
  Kara 
  Sea. 
  Also 
  Iceland, 
  Faroes, 
  Norway 
  to 
  

   Mediterranean; 
  Hudson 
  Bay 
  to 
  Long 
  Island 
  Sound; 
  Bering 
  Sea 
  to 
  

   Panamd; 
  north 
  Japan 
  Sea, 
  Japan; 
  South 
  Atlantic 
  (Tristan 
  da 
  Cunha, 
  

   Kerguelen, 
  Magellan 
  Straits). 
  In 
  low 
  water 
  to 
  609 
  fathoms; 
  epitokes 
  

   at 
  surface. 
  Variety 
  occidentalis 
  Hartman: 
  North 
  Carolina, 
  Florida, 
  

   Louisiana, 
  Texas, 
  Puerto 
  Rico; 
  intertidal. 
  

  

  Nereis 
  (Nereis) 
  zonata 
  Malmgren, 
  1867 
  

  

  Figure 
  30, 
  c, 
  h, 
  i 
  

  

  Heteronereis 
  grandifolia 
  Malmgren, 
  1865, 
  p. 
  108, 
  pi. 
  11, 
  fig. 
  16 
  (part 
  — 
  male 
  

   heteronereid, 
  not 
  female; 
  not 
  H. 
  grandifolia 
  Rathke, 
  1843). 
  

  

  Nereis 
  zonata 
  Malmgren, 
  1867, 
  p. 
  46, 
  pi. 
  5, 
  fig. 
  34.— 
  Th6el, 
  1879, 
  p. 
  42.— 
  Wir^n, 
  

   1883, 
  p. 
  402.— 
  Ditlevsen, 
  1911, 
  p. 
  419, 
  pi. 
  28, 
  fig. 
  6; 
  pi. 
  30, 
  figs. 
  18, 
  22.— 
  

  

  