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ZOOLOGY. 



feet are jointed, thus anticipating the jointed appendages of 

 the Crustacea and Insects. 



The Annelides are divided into two suborders. The first 

 suborder, Oligochceta, comprises Lumbricus, Nais, etc., while 

 the second suborder, Ch6&topoda,embi:a,cesSyUis, Autolytus, 

 Nereis, Polydora, Aphrodite, and Polynoe, which are free- 

 swimming, while the tubiculous worms which respire by spe- 



FIG. 158. 



Fig. 158. Cistenides Gouldii, and its tube. After Verrill. 

 Fig. 159. JSuchone elegam, enlarged. After Verrill. 



FIG. 159. 



cial branchiae, or gills, on the head, live in tubes of sand or 

 in limestone shells. Those which live in sand or mud-tubes 

 are Cirratulus (Fig. 160), Clymene and Clymenella (Fig. 156), 

 which has no branchiae, Amphitrite (Fig. 157), Terelrella, 

 Cistenides (Fig. 158), Sabella, and Euchone, (Fig. 159), 

 while Protula, Filograna, Serpula and Spirorbis secrete 

 more or less coiled limestone tubes. The large solid shells 

 of the Serpulae assist materially in building up coral reefs, 



