New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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EGG MASSES AND LARVAE OF THE POLYCHAETE NEREIS FALCARIA (NOTE)

G. B. Read*

Marine Laboratory, Zoology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Larvae from polychaete egg masses obtained from the south Wellington coast were reared to identifiable juvenile worms and were found to be Nereis falcaria (Willey, 1905). Egg masses and larvae closely correspond to those previously recorded by Kirk (1907) from an unknown polychaete.

*Present address: National Museum, Private Bag, Wellington, New Zealand. N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 8 (3): 557-61.
(Received for publication 14 March 1974)

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