WORMS 175 
FAMILY PHYLLODOCIDE 
These animals are commonly 
known as “paddle-worms,” on 
account of having leaf-like cirri, 
which they use in locomotion. 
The head is long and bears four 
pairs of short and four pairs of 
long tentacles. The body is long 
and depressed, sometimes two 
feet in length, usually eight to 
twelveincheslong. The general 
color is bright green and irides- 
cent. Found in tide-pools. Speci- 
mens are often found by digging 
in sandy mud, or they may be 
obtained by placing old shells 
and other material in a dish of 
sea-water. When the water be- 
comes a little stale, the worms of 
this and otherfamilies make their 
way to the sides of the dish, where 
they secrete a colorless slime 
which holds mud or any light _,A#lvot aca, natoral size; o nearopoda 
matter that it may come in con- chete; 3, felting bristles of notopodium. 
tact with. In this condition, when lifted or disturbed, they crawl 
rapidly out of the slime, and show to good advantage their elongate 
body, which is often beautifully colored. 
Genus Phyllodoce 
P. gracilis. Three inches or more long and one sixteenth of an inch 
wide; large proboscis, with twelve longitudinal rows of prominent pro- 
Phyllodoce paretii. 
