﻿MARINE 
  POLYCHAETE 
  WORMS 
  — 
  PETTIBONE 
  317 
  

  

  shells 
  (10 
  stations, 
  17 
  specimens). 
  West 
  Coast 
  North 
  America: 
  

   Washington 
  and 
  Puget 
  Sounds, 
  80 
  fms., 
  Pettibone. 
  East 
  Coast 
  

   North 
  America: 
  Off 
  Labrador, 
  8 
  fms,, 
  Blue 
  Dolphin 
  Expedition, 
  

   1949. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Widely 
  distributed 
  in 
  the 
  Arctic: 
  Siberian 
  and 
  

   Alaskan 
  Arctic, 
  Greenland, 
  Jan 
  Mayen, 
  Spitsbergen, 
  Novaya 
  Zem- 
  

   lya. 
  Also 
  Iceland, 
  Swedish 
  west 
  coast 
  to 
  France, 
  Mediterranean; 
  

   Labrador 
  to 
  Maine; 
  Bering 
  Sea 
  to 
  southern 
  California; 
  north 
  Japan 
  

   Sea. 
  In 
  1-1,333 
  fathoms. 
  

  

  Ampharete 
  goesi 
  Malmgren, 
  1865 
  

  

  Ampharete 
  goesi 
  Malmgren, 
  1865, 
  p. 
  364, 
  pi. 
  19, 
  fig. 
  45. 
  — 
  Hessle, 
  1917, 
  p. 
  91. 
  — 
  

   Augener, 
  1928, 
  p. 
  778.— 
  Annenkova, 
  1929, 
  p. 
  492, 
  pi, 
  38, 
  fig, 
  37; 
  1937, 
  p. 
  188; 
  

   1938, 
  p. 
  200.— 
  Zatsepin, 
  1948, 
  p. 
  150, 
  pi. 
  38, 
  fig. 
  10.— 
  Wesenberg-Lund, 
  

   1950a, 
  p. 
  47; 
  1950b, 
  p. 
  110; 
  1951, 
  p. 
  102.— 
  Berkeley 
  and 
  Berkeley, 
  1952, 
  p. 
  

   66, 
  fig. 
  136. 
  

  

  Ampharete 
  goesi 
  subsp. 
  braznikovi 
  Annenkova, 
  1929, 
  p. 
  492, 
  pi. 
  38, 
  fig. 
  44. 
  

  

  Description. 
  — 
  Length 
  35 
  mm,, 
  width 
  6 
  mm. 
  (up 
  to 
  50 
  mm. 
  long, 
  7 
  

   mm. 
  wide 
  — 
  Malmgren, 
  1865). 
  Paleae 
  rather 
  stout, 
  taper 
  abruptly, 
  

   ending 
  in 
  short 
  acuminate 
  tips, 
  14-21 
  in 
  each 
  group. 
  Branchiae 
  in 
  

   two 
  groups 
  separated 
  middorsally, 
  each 
  group 
  with 
  three 
  branchiae 
  

   in 
  transverse 
  line. 
  Abdominal 
  segments 
  17 
  (stem 
  form 
  and 
  Point 
  

   Barrow 
  specimens) 
  or 
  16 
  (subsp. 
  braznikovi 
  and 
  Washington 
  Sound 
  

   specimens). 
  Neuropodial 
  cirri 
  inconspicuous, 
  low, 
  rounded. 
  Pygid- 
  

   ium 
  with 
  two 
  long 
  anal 
  cirri. 
  Color: 
  In 
  life: 
  Body 
  reddish 
  orange, 
  

   branchiae 
  green. 
  In 
  alcohol: 
  Colorless. 
  Tube: 
  Membranous, 
  rather 
  

   thick, 
  with 
  debris 
  including 
  bits 
  of 
  shells, 
  sea 
  urchins 
  tests, 
  and 
  

   foraminiferans, 
  very 
  straggly. 
  

  

  New 
  records. 
  — 
  Arctic 
  Alaska: 
  Off 
  Point 
  Barrow 
  base, 
  up 
  to 
  15 
  

   miles 
  from 
  shore, 
  20.3-123.5 
  fms., 
  on 
  bottoms 
  of 
  mass 
  of 
  worm 
  tubes 
  

   and 
  various 
  combinations 
  of 
  mud, 
  pebbles, 
  gravel, 
  stones, 
  rocks, 
  shells, 
  

   and 
  worm 
  tubes 
  (11 
  stations, 
  20 
  specimens). 
  West 
  Coast 
  North 
  

   America: 
  Washington 
  Sound, 
  Pettibone. 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  Widely 
  distributed 
  in 
  the 
  Arctic: 
  Siberian 
  and 
  

   Alaskan 
  Arctic, 
  Greenland, 
  Spitsbergen, 
  Barents 
  Sea, 
  White 
  Sea, 
  

   Novaya 
  Zemlya. 
  Also 
  Iceland; 
  British 
  Columbia 
  to 
  Washington; 
  

   Okhotsk 
  Sea 
  to 
  north 
  Japan 
  Sea. 
  In 
  10.5-353 
  fathoms. 
  

  

  Ampharete 
  sp. 
  (Young) 
  

  

  Two 
  very 
  small 
  specimens, 
  12 
  mm. 
  long, 
  were 
  found 
  on 
  bottom 
  of 
  

   rocks 
  with 
  bryozoans 
  and 
  hydroids 
  in 
  17 
  fathoms 
  September 
  9, 
  1948. 
  

   Prostomium 
  3-lobed, 
  with 
  four 
  eye 
  spots, 
  bases 
  of 
  four 
  pairs 
  branchiae, 
  

   14 
  thoracic 
  segments, 
  10 
  abdominal 
  segments 
  plus 
  a 
  growing 
  zone. 
  

  

  