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Polychaeta source details
MacDonald, John Denis. (1858). On the external Anatomy and Natural History of the genus of Annelida named Palolo by the Samoans and Tonguese, and Mbalolo by the Fijians. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 22(3): 237-239, plate XLI.
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10.1111/j.1096-3642.1856.tb00094.x [view]
MacDonald, John Denis
1858
On the external Anatomy and Natural History of the genus of Annelida named Palolo by the Samoans and Tonguese, and Mbalolo by the Fijians
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
22(3): 237-239, plate XLI
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
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On the examination of specimens of a remarkable Annelidan, obtained at the Navigator Islands (Samoa), and presented to the British Museum by the Rev. J. B. Stair, Dr. Gray founded a new genus, which he called Palolo, adopting the native name of the animal. It is thus characterized :— " Body cylindrical separated into equal joints, each joint with a small tuft of three or four spicula on the middle of each side. Head ? Last joint ending in a couple of tentacles. Eggs globular. " Palolo viridis, n. sp. Green, with a row of round black spots down to the middle of the dorsal ? surface; one spot on the middle of each joint.— Habitat. Navigator's Islands."
Samoan Islands
Systematics, Taxonomy
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