Annelids of Marshall Islands — Reish 
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Fig. 1 . Map of Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, 
showing collecting sites. 
I showing collecting sites. 
ceptions — Rujoru and Japtan which she called 
Rujiyoru and Munit. 
discussion 
In addition to the 102 species of polychaetes 
which have been reported previously from the 
Marshall Islands, 29 species, including 4 newly 
described, are herein reported from the Marshall 
Islands for the first time. Of the 25 species 
which have been described earlier, but which 
were previously unknown from the Marshall 
Islands, 13 are cosmopolitan forms. The dis- 
tribution of 8 species has been extended from 
the Indian Ocean-Red Sea area. 
Following is a list of the polychaetes newly- 
reported from the Marshall Islands arranged 
according to previous known distributional 
records : 
COSMOPOLITAN SPECIES 
Eumida sanguinea 
Typosyllis prolifer a 
T. armillaris 
Exogone verugera 
Sphaerosyllis pirifera 
Neanthes arenaceodentata 
Perinereis helleri 
P. cultifera 
Prionospio cirrifera 
Spio fdicornis 
Ctenodrilus serratus 
Capitella capitata 
V ermiliop sis glandi gents 
SPECIES FROM INDIAN OCEAN-RED SEA GENERAL 
AREA 
Opistosyllis longicirrata 
O. australis 
Platynereis pulchella 
Perinereis nigropunctata 
Eunice australis 
Malacoceros ( M .) indie us 
Eleteromastides bipdus 
Axiothella australis 
SPECIES FROM OTHER AREAS 
Typosyllis cirropunctata — Italy 
Opistosyllis brunnea — West Africa 
Scolelepis (5.) bonnieri — France 
Salmacina in crus tans — Mediterranean Sea 
