THE AXXALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATUEAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. 56. AUGUST 1912. 



XVIII. — Report on the Annelida Pohjchceta collected in the 

 North Sea and adjacent parts by the Scotch Fishery Board 

 Vessel 'Goldseeker.' — Part I. Amphinomidfe to Sigalionidne. 

 By William Small, M.A., B.Sc, Gatty Marine Labora- 

 tory, St. Andrews. 



[riate VI.]. 



The families included in the following report are Aniphi- 

 iiomidse, Aphroditidse, Polynoida?, and Sigalionidse. 



The Amphinomidpe are but sparsely represented by a single 

 species, while the AphroditidiB show representatives of two 

 genera out of the three that are accounted British. The 

 Polynoidse are represented by nineteen species, and the 

 Sigalionidre by four. 



The distribution of several species has been extended. 

 Aphrodita echidna, de Quatrefages, and Evarne atlantica, 

 ]\l'Intosh, are recorded for the first time from tiie North Sea 

 (Moray Y\x\\\),\;\\\\Q.Euphrosynehorealis, Ql^r.stedt, Eucranta 

 villosa, Malragren, and Antino'e eleyans, Tiieel, are new to 

 British waters, if under that term be included the Faroe 

 Channel. Canon Norman (1890, p. 345), discussing the 

 limits of the British Marine Area and the Report of the 

 Committee appointed by the British Association in 1887 to 

 define these limits (Brit. Assoc. Rep. 1888, p. drt), gives as 

 bis opinion that the fauna of the ''cold area" or Faroe 

 Channel is arctic in character, and should therefore not be 



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