Publication of the week is ...

[Kirk Fitzhugh]

At 01:04 AM 3/1/01 +0000, you wrote:
>Orrhage, L. 2001. On the anatomy of the central nervous system and the
>morphological value of the anterior end appendages of Ampharetidae,
>Pectinariidae and Terebellidae (Polychaeta). -  Acta Zoologica 82(1):57-71.

> It might interest scorers of family character states that: " ... the 
> ampharetids, the pectinariids and the terebellids bear no antennae and no
> palps and that their buccal tentacles belong to the alimentary canal."  

That's great news regarding the matter of palps. I never did agree with 
that interpretation.  ;-)

Kirk

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neglects the questions is a false logic."

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Kirk Fitzhugh, Ph.D.
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