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Reproduction and development of the sabellid polychaete Myxicola infundibulum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. Dean ,
S. R. Chapman  and
C. S. Chapman
D. Dean
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, U.S.A. Ira C. Darling Center, University of Maine, Walpole, ME 04573, U.S.A.
S. R. Chapman
Affiliation:
Ira C. Darling Center, University of Maine, Walpole, ME 04573, U.S.A.
C. S. Chapman
Affiliation:
Ira C. Darling Center, University of Maine, Walpole, ME 04573, U.S.A.
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There are 290 described species in the tube-dwelling family Sabellidae (Fauchald, 1977), but our knowledge of their reproductive biology is limited, in whole or in part, to no more than 30 species (McEuen, Wu & Chia, 1983; Knight-Jones & Bowden, 1984). In the monogeneric subfamily Myxicolinae, the diminutive Myxicola aesthetica (=dinardensis) (Claparède) is known to undergo scissiparity (Caullery & Mesnil, 1920; Okada, 1934; Knight-Jones & Bowden, 1984). For the larger species, M. infundibulum (Reinier), the only information on reproduction is: an illustration of the sperm (Claparede, 1870), the conclusion that it spawns during the autumn in the Bay of Fundy and adjacent waters (MacKay, 1977 a, b), and that autotomy has not been observed and regeneration is limited to the branchial plume (Wells, 1952).

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , May 1987 , pp. 431 - 439
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1987

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