A genus of tubicolous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around the head.
Naturally, it is among the free living forms that the parapodium is best developed, and least developed among the tubicolous Polychaeta.
Defn: One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids.
Defn: One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.
Defn: Any one of numerous species of tubicolous annelids of the genus Serpula and allied genera of the family Serpulidæ.
One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids.
One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata.
The young worm then develops a tube and shews itself as a normal tubicolous Chaetopod.
The view of Morse, that the Brachiopoda are degraded tubicolous Chaetopods, is not so far supported by any definite embryological facts.
The development of the tentacular ring as well as its innervation from the sub-oesophageal ganglion prohibit us, as has been pointed out by Gegenbaur, from comparing it with the tentacles of tubicolous Chaetopoda.
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