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Calcium accumulation and secretion in the serpulid polychaete Spirorbis spirorbis L. at settlement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

J. A. Nott  and
K. R. Parkes
J. A. Nott
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, North Wales, U.K.
K. R. Parkes
Affiliation:
N.E.R.C. Unit of Marine Invertebrate Biology, Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, North Wales, U.K.
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When the free-swimming larva of the polychaete tubeworm Spirorbis spirorbis settles permanently on a suitable substratum, it forms a thin, mucous, anchoring tube, which covers only the posterior half of the body. Within 3 h the worm has built a comparatively thick, calcareous tube onto the anterior end of the initial, mucous tube, which later becomes a compressed and folded remnant (Nott, 1973). The volume of calcareous material forming the tube cannot be stored within the body of the larva before settlement and must, therefore, be taken up rapidly from sea water or ingested material.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , November 1975 , pp. 911 - 923
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1975

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