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The larval development of three species of Magelona (Polychaeta) from localities near Plymouth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Douglas P. Wilson
Douglas P. Wilson
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The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB
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Fertilizations of Magelona filiformis, M. alleni, and M. mirabilis were made in the laboratory and the resulting larvae reared through the earliest stages. Later stages of all three species were obtained from the plankton and induced to metamorphose in the laboratory. The long larval tentacles derive from the prototroch and associated tissues. Adult tentacles appear during later pelagic life as thickenings at the bases of the larval tentacles; the latter, together with the long provisional bristles, are discarded at metamorphosis. The early larvae of M. alleni are considerably larger than equivalent stages of the other two species. The early larvae of M. mirabilis are peculiar in that at first the larval tentacle of the left side is a mere stump while that of the right side is relatively large; in the other two species both tentacles are of equal length. Larvae of the three species are readily identifiable by characters described in the text.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , May 1982 , pp. 385 - 401
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1982

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