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Family SERPULIDAE 



Sub-family SERPULINAE 



Genus Serpula, Linnaeus 



Serpula vermicularis, Linnaeus. 



Fauvel, 1927, p. 351, fig. 120 a-q. 



St. 27. 15. iii. 26. West Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 3-3 miles S 44° E of Jason Light, 

 iiom. Gear DL. Bottom: mud and rock. Forty specimens. 



St. 45. 6. iv. 26. 27 miles S 85° E of Jason Light, South Georgia. 238-270 m. Gear OTL. 

 Bottom: grey mud. One specimen. 



St. 140. 23. xii. 26. Stromness Harbour to Larsen Point, South Georgia. From 54° 02' S, 

 36° 38' W to 54° 11' 30" S, 36° 29' W. 122-136 m. Gear OTL. Bottom: green mud and stones. 

 One specimen. Gear N 4-T. Three specimens. 



St. 146. 8. i. 27. 53° 48' 00" S, 35° 37' 30" W. 728 m. Gear DLH. Bottom: rock. Three 

 specimens. 



St. 160. 7. ii.27. Near Shag Rocks. 53° 43' 40" S, 40° 57' 00" W. 177 m. Gear DLH. Bottom: 

 grey mud, stones and rock. Ten specimens. 



St. 190. 24. iii. 27. Bismarck Strait, Palmer Archipelago. 64° 56' 00" S, 65° 35' 00" W. 93-126 m. 

 Gear DLH. Bottom: stones, mud and rock. Two specimens. 



St. WS 27. 19. xii. 26. 53° 55' 00" S, 38° 01' 00" W. 107 m. Gear N 100 H. Bottom: gravel. 

 Thirty specimens. 



St. WS 77. 12. iii. 27. 51° 01' 00" S, 66° 31' 30" W. From 51° 00' 00" S, 66° 30' 00" W to 

 51° 02' 00" S, 66° 33' 00" W. 110-113 m. Gear OTC. Bottom: coarse dark sand. Six specimens. 



St. WS 79. 13. iii. 27. 51° 01' 30" S, 64° 59' 30" W. From 51° 00' 00" S, 65° 00' 00" W to 

 51° 03' 00" S, 64° 59' 00" W. 132-131 m. Gear OTC. Bottom : fine dark sand. Four specimens. 



St. WS 92. 8. iv. 27. 51° 58' 30" S, 65° 01' 00" W. From 52° 00' 00" S, 65° 00' 00" W to 

 51° 57' 00" S, 65° 02' 00" W. 145-143 m. Gear OTC. Bottom : fine dark sand and stones. Vermidom 

 with tubes of Idanthyrsiis armatiis. 



St. MS 71. 9. iii. 26. East Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. 95 cables E x S to 1-2 miles 

 E X S of Sappho Point. 110-60 m. Gear BTS. Ten specimens. 



Serpula loveni (Kinberg). 



Zopyrus loveni, Kinberg, 1857-1910, p. 71, pi. xxvii, fig. 5. 



St. WS 128. 10. vi. 27. West side of Gough Island, inshore. 40° 19' 00" S, 10° 04' 00" W. 

 120-90 m. Gear DLH. Six specimens and numerous tubes. 



Description. The average length is 15 mm. There are no colour markings. There 

 are seven thoracic chaetigers. The two branchial lobes have each 14 filaments: these 

 filaments have naked filiform tips. Of these examples four have oval bilaterally sym- 

 metrical opercula (Fig. 86, a and b) and the remaining two radially symmetrical round 

 opercula (Fig. 86, c). The peduncle shows a marked constriction below the operculum, 

 which is inserted more or less centrally on its stalk. The number of rays or teeth on the 

 operculum varies between 12 and 24. They are large and well separated by radial 



