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Incubation-habit in a Phyllodocid Polychæte, Notophyllum foliosum Sars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2009

Extract

That a mother worm protects its eggs until tie young are hatched is common enough among Polychætes, but not in the family Phyllodocidas.

McIntosh (1908) mentioned in his British Annelids, Vol. II, Pt. I, p. 49, that two female specimens of Notophyllum foliosum, procured by his late friend Dr. Howden, at Lamlash, Arran, in August, were laden with mature eggs. Certainly the words “were laden” used here tell us something about the particular habit of the worm, but the sentence is too short and is not emphatic enough to attract attention.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1930

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