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in the tubes, such marked pecuHarities may occur in their choice 

 and aj)plication that from a fragment of the tube the builder 

 can be inferred with certainty, and the form of 



the tubes (Figs. 261, 262, 

 263) may even be so char- 

 acteristic that there is no 

 danger of mistaking them 

 for other tubes. We have 

 examples of this kind 

 especially in the Eunicidae, 

 and also in the Maldanidse 

 (Fig. 264), Terebellidie, Sa- 

 bellidje, and Serpulidse, In 

 determining" the distribution 

 of the worms, it must be 

 remembered that uninhab- 

 ited tubes, usually filled by 

 mud or other material from the bottom, may be transported by 

 currents. 



Many of the principal types of the littoral annelids have not 



Fig. 264. — Maldane 

 cuculliffera. ?. 



Fig. 265. — Cirra- 

 tulus melanaean- 

 thus. 2_ 



Fig. 266. — Amphinonie Pallasii. 



been dredged beyond the hundred-fathom line ; such familiar 

 groups as the Syllidse, Nereidse, Cirratulidae (Fig. 265), and 



Amphinomidse (Fig. 266), have no 

 representatives at that depth, while 

 the Phyllodocidae, Ariciidse, Tere- 

 bellidse, and Sabellidae extend to 

 300 fathoms, and such families as 

 the Polynoidse (Fig. 267), Eunicidse, 

 Opheliidse, Aphroditidse, and Serpu- 

 lidse live beyond the five-hundred-fathom line, where occur 

 also the Ampharetidae, many of which live in tubes lined with 

 a chitinous layer. 



Fig. 267. — Sthenelais simplex. ^. 



