. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 6 Annals of the South African Museum. and branchial regions is not so marked and abrupt as it is shown in Kinberg's figure. The tail is strong and muscular, its numerous segments (usually about 100 to 150):;: are very narrow from before backwards, espe- cially in the anterior half of the tail. The epidermis is raised into small rounded papillae; there are no elongate papillae or other outgrowths of the body wall in this region. The notopodia have the usual bluntly conical form ; a tuft of capillary se
. Annals of the South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 6 Annals of the South African Museum. and branchial regions is not so marked and abrupt as it is shown in Kinberg's figure. The tail is strong and muscular, its numerous segments (usually about 100 to 150):;: are very narrow from before backwards, espe- cially in the anterior half of the tail. The epidermis is raised into small rounded papillae; there are no elongate papillae or other outgrowths of the body wall in this region. The notopodia have the usual bluntly conical form ; a tuft of capillary setae projects from the oval aperture of the setal sac,. TEXT-FIGURE I. Arenicola loveni. Anterior end, dorsal aspect, x l-5. Mo. Mouth. N1. First notopodium. Nuchal groove. PR. Prostomiura. which is situated on or near the rounded apex of the notopodium. The type specimen possesses a twentieth segment bearing noto- podial setge (Fig. 2). Following the nineteenth chaetigerous annulus are four rings and then a larger one. On the right dorso-lateral region of this larger annulus there is a slight elevation, from an aperture in which a tuft of twelve to fifteen capillary setae projects; * There are 175 septa in the tail of one of the Saldanha Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum; South African Museum. Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Cape Town [etc. , South African Museum, etc. ]
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