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The Tube-Worm Spirorbis Vitreus and its Distribution in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

D. J. Crisp ,
Julie H. Bailey  and
E. W. Knight-Jones
D. J. Crisp
Affiliation:
Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
Julie H. Bailey
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of Swansea
E. W. Knight-Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University College of Swansea
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Spirorbis vitreus (Fab.), an arctic form, seems to be absent from Wales and most of England, but is generally abundant off the west coast of Scotland and also occurs in certain localities off Ireland, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Brittany (which is probably its southern limit in Europe). Its range thus extends farthest down our western coasts, a distribution which is characteristic of various other northern and southern forms that are near the limits of their geographical ranges. Such species presumably benefit from the equable temperatures, adjoining deep water, and this winter-breeding species of Spirorbis also needs freedom from abrasion.

The tubes of juvenile S. vitreus are very different from those of adults. The distribution of uncini on the abdomen shows a remarkable bilateral asymmetry, as in S. spirillum.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , October 1967 , pp. 511 - 521
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1967

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