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 ol. 105 Washington : 1956 No. 3361 



MARINE POLYCHAETE WORMS FROM LABRADOR 



By Marian H. Pettibone ' 



This report on the polychaete fauna of Labrador is based on 

 fiaterial collected by the Blue Dolphin Expeditions to Labrador and 

 Newfoundland in 1949, 1950, 1951, and 1952 under the command of 

 )avid C. Nutt. The collections were made between 51° and 60° 

 orth latitude, in the intertidal zone and in depths of from 4 to 125 

 athoms, on bottoms of silt, mud, sand, rubble, pebbles, stones, and 

 ocks, together with detritus, shells, corals, bryozoans, algae, worm 

 ubes, and various combinations of these. The collections are de- 

 osited in the U. S. National Museum, Additional records for some 

 f the Labrador species are cited from other collections in that 

 luseum. 



This paper supplements to some extent the report on the polychaetes 

 f Point Barrow, Alaska (Pettibone, 1954). Of the 68 species in the 

 iabrador collections, 45 were found at Point Barrow. In the syste- 

 latic portion below, only those hterature references not mentioned 

 1 the earlier paper are cited; more' complete synonymies for the species 

 ommon to both regions will be found in the Point Barrow report. 



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