POLYCHAETE WORMS — PETTIBONE 557 



Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Long Island Sound; low- 

 water to 84 fathoms, U. S. Fish Commission. 



Distribution: Iceland (rare), Norway, Denmark to North Sea 

 and France; Newfoundland to Virginia. Mainly littoral; up to 84 

 fathoms. (Records of N. virens from the Pacific, north Japan Sea, 

 and Siberian Arctic are the closely related N. brandti (Malmgren).) 



Nereis (Nereis) pelagica Linne, 1758 



Nereis pelagica Moore, 1909b, p. 137. — Wesenberg-Lund, 1953, p. 40. — Pettibone, 

 1954, p. 264, fig. 30,a,b. 



New records: Labrador: Okak area, Nain, St. Lewis Inlet, Strait 

 of Belle Isle, 4-60 fms., on bottoms of sand, rock and coral; 14 speci- 

 mens, Stations 1, 2, 16, 22, 62, 72, 76. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in the Arctic. Also Iceland, 

 Norway to Mediterranean; Hudson Bay to Long Island Sound; 

 Bering Sea to Panamd; north Japan Sea to Japan; South Atlantic 

 (Tristan da Cunha, Kerguelen, Magellan Straits). In low water to 

 609 fathoms. Variety occidentalis Hartman, off North Carolina, 

 Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Puerto Rico; intertidal. 



Nereis (Nereis) zonata Malmgren, 1867 



Nereis zonata Wesenberg-Lund, 1953, p. 40. — Pettibone, 1954, p. 265, fig. 30,c,h,i. 



New records: Labrador: Backway, east and west ends Lake 

 Melville, Goose Bay, all in Greater Lake Melville area, 9-100 fms., 

 on bottoms of mud and sandy mud with rocks; 37 specimens. Stations 

 29, 34, 36, 38, 40, 47, 55, 59, 60, 67, 78. 



Distribution: Widely distributed in the Arctic. Also Iceland, 

 Faroes; Hudson Bay to Labrador; Bering Sea to Oregon; north Japan 

 Sea. In low water to 439 fathoms; epitokes at surface. 



Family Nephtyidae 



Key to the genera of Nephtyidae from Labrador 



1. Branchiae involute, long, cylindrical, curved or rolled in spiral toward lateral 



side of body Aglaophamus 



Branchiae recurved, cirriform, sickle-shaped, with convex side toward 

 lateral side of body Nephtys 



Genus Aglaophamus Kinberg 



Aglaophamus malmgreni (Theel, 1879) 



Nephthys longisetosa Malmgren, 1865, p. 106, pi. 12, fig. 20; not N. longosetosa 

 Oersted, 1843. 



Nephthys malmgreni Theel, 1879, p. 26, pi. 1, fig. 17, pi. 2, fig. 17.— Not Moore, 

 1908, p. 342.— Fauvel, 1923, p. 371, fig. 145,k.— Augener, 1928, p. 702.— 

 Annenkova, 1931, p. 203; 1937, p. 164; 1938, p. 162.— Gustafson, 1936, p. 6.— 



