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A Review of the Genus Eunice - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ZOOLOGY<br />

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FIGURE 14.—<strong>Eunice</strong> argeniinensis (paratype, USNM 19280): a, anterior end, lateral view; b, parapodium 52,<br />

anterior view; c, compound falciger, parapodium 52; d, acicula, parapodium 52; e, subacicularhook, parapodium<br />

52; f, pectinate seta, parapodium 52. (Scale bars in mm.)<br />

indistinct. Appendages small, slender; head very small,<br />

bidentate. Proximal teeth reduced triangular, directed laterally;<br />

distal teeth nearly erect; both teeth <strong>of</strong> similar size. Guards<br />

asymmetrical, bluntly pointed, without mucros. Pseudocompound<br />

falcigers and compound spinigers absent. Aciculae<br />

paired, black; cross-section flattened, knife-shaped (Figure<br />

14d); thickened edge <strong>of</strong> aciculae ventral. Aciculae considerably<br />

heavier than subacicular hooks; tips bluntly pointed, curved.

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