Annelids of Alaska —HARTMAN 
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Genus Brada Stimpson 
Brada granulata Malmgren 
Brada granulata Malmgren, 1867: 194, pi. 1$, 
fig. 71; Murdoch, 1885&: 155. 
Collection. Station 51-40 (1). 
A single individual of this Arctic species is 
represented. Murdoch (1885: 155) has previ¬ 
ously reported it from Alaska at Point Barrow, 
in about 3 fm. The present record is Canoe 
Bay, in 25 to 40 fm. 
Family CAPITELLIDAE 
Genus Heteromastus Eisig 
Heteromastus filiformis (Claparede) 
Capitella filiformis Claparede, 1864: 509, pi. 4, 
fig. 10. 
Heteromastus filiformis Fauvel, 1927: 150-152, 
fig. 53; Hartman, 1947: 427-428. 
Collection. Head of Lazy Bay (1). 
The anterior end through the fifth setigerous 
ring is thicker than the rest of the anterior re¬ 
gion and its surface is reticulated. The thorax 
consists of 12 segments; the first is achaetous, 
the second to sixth segments have only capillary 
setae, and the seventh to twelfth segments are 
provided with long-handled hooks. The pos¬ 
terior abdominal segments have inflated para- 
podial ridges, but there are no other branchial 
structures. The proboscis is covered with fine 
papillae. 
This species has been reported from both 
sides of the north Atlantic Ocean; the present 
record is the first from Alaska; the single indi¬ 
vidual comes from shore at the head of Lazy 
Bay. 
Genus Capitella Blainville 
Capitella capitata (Fabricius) 
Lumbricus capitatus Fabricius, 1780: 279. 
Capitella capitata Chamberlin, 1920: 25B; Fau¬ 
vel, 1927: 154-155, fig. 55; Berkeley, 1929: 
312; Hartman, 1947: 405. 
Collection. Station 47-40 (1). 
The single individual comes from shore in 
Canoe Bay. The species has previously been re¬ 
ported from the north Pacific (see synonymy 
above). 
Family MALDANIDAE 
Genus Nicomache Malmgren 
Nicomache per sonata Johnson 
Fig. 11, d-g. 
Nicomache personata Johnson, 1901: 419-420, 
pi. 13, fig. 134-139; Berkeley, 1929: 314. 
Collections. Stations 61-40 (2); head of 
Lazy Bay (14). 
The antero-dorsal region is spotted with 
black. There are 22 setigerous segments. The 
first four segments are provided with single, 
heavy, yellow spines in neuropodia, or the 
fourth may have three spines in each parapo- 
dium; the fifth has two to four spines, and 
farther back there is an increasing number of 
setal structures; a seventh may have eight spines. 
They are at first acicular, but by the fourth 
segment they are slightly rostral (Fig. 11 d)\ 
in the next two or three segments they are 
transitional and in the posterior segments are 
strongly beaked (Fig. 11 e, /). 
There is a single, ante-anal, apodous, and 
achaetous segment. The pygidium has a circlet 
of 19 or 20 short, triangular papillae (Fig. 11 g) 
usually about equally spaced and similar to one 
another, or some may be bifurcate or reduced to 
mere elevations. 
Typically the rostrate hooks have a strong, 
recurved, beaklike tooth and about six smaller 
teeth above (Fig. 11 e); the fringed region is 
extensive (Fig. 11 /). The long, hairlike dorsal 
setae are already present from the fourth setig¬ 
erous segment and are continued posteriorly at 
least to the eighteenth one; they extend far out 
from the sides of the body (Fig. 11 g). The 
tube is thick, coarse, hard and dark, and it con- 
