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Woodworth, William McMichael. (1907). The Palolo worm, Eunice viridis (Gray). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 51(1): 3-21, plates 1-3.
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Woodworth, William McMichael
1907
The Palolo worm, <i>Eunice viridis</i> (Gray).
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College
51(1): 3-21, plates 1-3
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The Palolo worm 1 first became known from the Samoan Islands, where it attracted the attention of the missionaries because it was eaten, prized and sought for by the natives, and because it appeared periodically in certain localities in enormous numbers, and for a few hours only, and because it made its appearance almost invariably in the months of October and November, and always during a quartering of the moon, and was not seen again until the following year under precisely the same conditions. It further became known that the November crop was vastly larger than that of October, and that all " Palolo" were headless.

1 In the Fijian Islands the worm is called " Bololo," pronounced Mbololo by the natives. In the course of the present paper I shall use the Samoan name Palolo, for it was in the Samoan Islands that it was first heard from and its true history became known. When the name is printed " Palolo," i. e. in quotation marks, I refer to the headless, epitokal, free-swimming portion of the worm. Different writers have spelled it Pulolo and Palola. It has also been called the "Fiji Worm."
Fiji Islands
Pacific Ocean
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