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Qattyana amondseni (Malmgren, 1867) 



Nychia amondseni Malmgren, 1867, p. 5, pi. 1, fig. 4. — Verrill, 1881, pp. 303, 



306.— Webster and Benedict, 1884, p. 700. 

 Gattyana amondseni Moore, 1902, p. 259; 1908, p. 336; 1909b, p. 136.— Augener, 



1928, p. 693; 1933, p. 204.— Thorson, 1946, p. 46.— Wesenberg-Lund, 1950a, 



p. 5; 1950b, p. 14; 1951, p. 10. 



Description: Length 16-18 mm., width including setae 6-8 mm. 

 (up to 29 mm. long, 11 mm. wide, Malmgren, 1867). Segments 

 35-36. Papillae on antennae, dorsal cirri, and elytra much shorter 

 than on G. cirrosa. Elytra smooth, iridescent, with elytral fringe 

 confined mostly to external border, not having the straggly appear- 

 ance of G. cirrosa. Elytra whitish, uniformly tan, tan mottled with 

 brown, or tannish with a darker spot over the place of attachment. 

 Elytral microtubercles smaller than in G. cirrosa, conical and bifid. 



New records: Labrador: Hebron Fjord, 60-95 fms., on bottoms 

 of mud and fine sandy mud with rock; 2 specimens. Stations 10, 11. 

 East Coast North America: Off Nova Scotia, Massachusetts, 

 Rhode Island, 13-90 fms., U. S. Fish Commission (Verrill, identified). 



Distribution: Scattered records in the Arctic: Baffin Bay, Davis 

 Strait, West Greenland, Spitsbergen. AJso west coast of Norway; 

 Labrador to Rhode Island; southeastern Alaska and Gulf of Alaska. 

 In 5 to 378 fathoms. 



Family Sigalionidae 



Genus Pholo'e Johnston, 1839 



Pholoe minuta (Fabricius, 1780) 



Pholoe minuta Wesenberg-Lund, 1953, p. 28. — Pettibone, 1954, p. 230, fig. 26,f, 



New record: Labrador: Hamilton Inlet, 6 fms., mud and sand; 

 4 specimens, Station 24. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in the Arctic. Also Iceland, 

 Norway to northern France; Labrador to Rhode Island; Bering Sea to 

 southern Oregon; north Japan Sea; South Africa. In low water to 

 1,254 fathoms. 



Family Phyllodocidae 



Both genera represented have the prostomium with 4 subulate 

 frontal antennae, tentacular cirri 4 pairs on 3 tentacular segments, 

 uniramous parapodia with compound setae. 



Key to the genera of Phyllodocidae from Labrador 



1. First tentacular segment rudimentary dorsally, with 1 pair tentacular cirri 

 lateral to prostomium; second segment distinct, with 2 pairs tentacular cirri; 

 third segment distinct, with 1 pair tentacular cirri, 1 pair normal ventral 



