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Tubifex rivulorum is a slender Oligochæte, not more than two inches long, often found in large numbers in the mud of rivers and streams, but it occurs frequently also in brackish tidal waters, and therefore a memoir on this worm is appropriately included in a series dealing with marine animals. Of the aquatic Oligochætes, Tubifex is the type usually chosen for study in advanced classes in this country. Accounts of the different systems of organs have appeared in various zoological publications, but for figures of the worm the student has hitherto been dependent chiefly on the memoirs of d'Udekem (1855) and Vejdovsky (1884). Miss Dixon has revised and extended the previous accounts, with the result that her memoir gives a careful and reasonably full description of the structure of the worm, illustrated by seven well-drawn plsrtes, of which the first in particular will be useful to the student.
Liverpool Marine Biology Committee. L.M.B.C. Memoirs on Typical British Marine Plants and Animals.
Edited by Prof. W. A. Herdman. xxiii. Tubifex. By G. C. Dixon. Pp. viii + 100 + 7 plates. (London: Williams and Norgate, 1915.) Price 3s. 6d.
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Liverpool Marine Biology Committee L.M.B.C. Memoirs on Typical British Marine Plants and Animals . Nature 96, 228 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096228b0
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