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Syllidian Miscellany

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Yô K. Okada
Yô K. Okada
Affiliation:
Imperial University of Kyoto, Japan.
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This Autolytus has been known only in the form of Sacconereis, i.e. as the female stolon of an unknown Syllid. It was discovered in 1864 by a French zoologist, E. Claparède, at Port-Vendres (Pyrénées Orientales). According to the original figures and description it is an ordinary female individual in its general appearance, carrying a large egg-sac on the ventral side. The latter is “étranglé en 8” and turkish blue, the colour being due to the contained eggs. The body consists of about 60 segments, the dorsal surface of which is transversely banded by pigment of rose colour. Modification of the segments for swimming commences at the 9th setigerous segment and stops at the 21st. The following 40 segments (about) are not modified like the 8 in the first region just behind the head. The most striking character, by which the present stolon is distinguished from any other Sacconereis, is the presence of a pair of extra appendages in front of the head in addition to the median and lateral tentacles. Claparède states that the presence of these appendages, “qui n”ont été signalés chez aucune autre Sacconereide,” is by no means very astonishing, since there are two such ones in Polybostricus. Claparède clearly predicted their homology to the frontal lobes of the bifid antenna-like appendages in the male head. A. Malaquin (1893) actually explained the bifid condition of the frontal appendages of the male as due to their origin in the fusion of the lateral tentacles and the palpi.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , January 1933 , pp. 641 - 653
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1933

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