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McIntosh, William Carmichael. (1911). On the structure of Magelona. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8. 7(41): 417-457.
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McIntosh, William Carmichael
1911
On the structure of <i>Magelona</i>.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8
7(41): 417-457
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb). Publication date: "May 1911". This is a translation, without plates, of the 1878 publication "Beiträge zur Anatomie von Magelona", originally in German [see SourceID 62381]
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In his observations on the Annelids from the Island of St. Catherine, off the coast of Brazil, Dr. Fritz Müller, in 1858, briefly mentions, under the name of Magelona papillicornis, a remarkable form with a flattened snout, two long tentacles furnished with cylindrical papillae, corpusculated blood, and other features which appear to agree in the closest manner with the British annelid which forms the subject of the following remarks. The type was next referred to by Dr. Edouard Claparède in his account of a larval form which he found at St. Vaast la Hougue, on the west coast of France. The same singular species, however, as that indicated by the first-mentioned author was probably originally discriminated by the late Dr. George Johnston, of Berwick, but as his description was not published until 1865 — long after his death — the name (Maea mirabilis) he gave it lapses. In Britain it has occurred abundantly at St. Andrews, and also, as Dr. Carrington first showed, at Southport; indeed it probably inhabits similar sandy flats at and beyond the margin of low water on many shores — in company with Valencinia armandi, Glycera, Aricia, Spio, Lanice conchilega, and the crustacean and molluscan fauna characteristic of such sites.
In his observations on the Annelids from the Island of St. Catherine, off the coast of Brazil, Dr. Fritz Müller, in 1858, briefly mentions, under the name of Magelona papillicornis, a remarkable form with a flattened snout, two long tentacles furnished with cylindrical papillae, corpusculated blood, and other features which appear to agree in the closest manner with the British annelid which forms the subject of the following remarks. The type was next referred to by Dr. Edouard Claparède in his account of a larval form which he found at St. Vaast la Hougue, on the west coast of France. The same singular species, however, as that indicated by the first-mentioned author was probably originally discriminated by the late Dr. George Johnston, of Berwick, but as his description was not published until 1865 — long after his death — the name (Maea mirabilis) he gave it lapses. In Britain it has occurred abundantly at St. Andrews, and also, as Dr. Carrington first showed, at Southport; indeed it probably inhabits similar sandy flats at and beyond the margin of low water on many shores — in company with Valencinia armandi, Glycera, Aricia, Spio, Lanice conchilega, and the crustacean and molluscan fauna characteristic of such sites.
British Islands
North Sea (and Channel)
North Sea (and Channel)
Internal anatomy
Morphology
Systematics, Taxonomy
Morphology
Systematics, Taxonomy
Magelona papillicornis F. Müller, 1858 (additional source)
Taxonomy
This note is on the early history of misidentifications of Magelona papillicornis in Europe and the Bristish Isles. ... [details]
