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The Post-Larval Development of Loimia medusa Sav

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Douglas P. Wilson
Douglas P. Wilson
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Student Probationer at the Plymouth Laboratory.
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1. The larva of a Terebellid which is very common in plankton from the Plymouth district during spring has been reared and proved to be the young of Loimia medusa Sav. This larva is characterised by its very large gelatinous tube.

2. The development of the external structures is described from a stage in which the first tentacle was just appearing to a juvenile stage in which all the main characters of the adult had been assumed.

3. The building of the first sandy tube on the bottom is described.

4. The development of the bristles and uncini are dealt with in some detail and a comparison made with the corresponding development in Nicolea zostericola. Evidence of the suppression of a pair of larval bristle-bundles in Loimia is indicated.

5. Previous records of Loimia larvse are discussed.

6. McIntosh's separation of our British Loimia to a new species, L. montagui, is shown to be probably unjustified.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1928 , pp. 129 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1928

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