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IN September last I forwarded to NATURE the description of an effectual protective device adopted by a small tubicolous Annelid which had been sent to me from Jersey; the device consisting in the coiling-up of the end of the tube. I have recently been able to submit specimens to Prof. W. C. McIntosh, of St. Andrews, who has kindly identified the builder as Sabella saxicava, a form which he tells me is common in the Channel Islands, and occurs also on our southern coast. So far as I can learn, this peculiar and interesting habit of an Annelid had not previously been observed.
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WATSON, A. The Protective Device of an Annelid. Nature 46, 7 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046007a0
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