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Acknowledgments. We are grateful to the people that have 
collected and deposited specimens in the AM, MV and MAGNT, 
as well as the curators and officers who have facilitated loans 
of specimens from these institutions and from ZMUH and 
USNM, especially Stephen Keable, Robin Wilson, Chris Glasby, 
Angelika Brandt and Kristian Fauchald. We are grateful to 
Adriana Giangrande and an anonymous reviewer for their useful 
comments. A special thanks to Robin Wilson for his searches 
for the mysterious record of M. vesiculosum from Australia. We 
would also l ik e to thank Sue Lindsay of the AM, for assisting 
with SEM photographs. This study has been partially funded by 
an Australian Biological Resources Study/Australian Museum 
Postdoctoral Fellowship to the first author. We would like to give 
recognition to Phyllis Knight-Jones for her enormous contribution 
to the taxonomy of genus Megalomma and dedication to increasing 
sabellid taxonomic knowledge in general. 
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