[Annelida] Oligochaete with anal cirri?

[Adrian Glover]

I have become quite intrigued by this little Thursday afternoon wormy discussion. Would you be interested Geoff to send us a piece of tissue and we will sequence it for you? Assuming you have material in ethanol. Perhaps we should have a wager; I am sure Jim is right but it also reminds me of cirratulid/ctenodrilids, particularly Raricirrus, which we are working on a little bit. Please do pop some sample in the airmail if you like, we will post the genetic results here to this list for anyone to use.
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On 2 Feb 2012, at 15:16, James Blake wrote:

> 
> I realize I had not sent this to the entire list.
>  
> Jim
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: James Blake <jablake9 from gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [Annelida] RE: Oligochaete with anal cirri?
> To: Geoff Read <Geoffrey.Read from niwa.co.nz>
> 
> 
> Geoff,
>  
> This is a paraonid.
>  
> There is an entirely unreported group of offshore paraonids that have a type of crotchet or hooked neuroseta. Sometimes it appears bidentate owing to an overhanging sheeth. There are a fair number of species, some quite common in deep water. All are small and typically only retained on very fine mesh sieves; most have anywhere from 3-12 pairs of branchiae, but at least one abranchiate species is known to me, yours appears to be another.
>  
> We have tentatively placed these in the genus Levinsenia. All are new to science.
>  
> Jim
> 
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Geoff Read <Geoffrey.Read from niwa.co.nz> wrote:
> And here is a couple of small images, one of either end.  Magnification x200 or so.
> 
> Geoff
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: annelida-bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu [mailto:annelida-
> > bounces from oat.bio.indiana.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Read
> > Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2012 2:58 p.m.
> > To: Polychaete mailing list
> > Subject: [Annelida] Oligochaete with anal cirri?
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Quick question? Do oligochaetes ever have a pair of anal cirri?  I have been
> > looking at offshore samples from mobile coarse sands with some interesting
> > small worms in them, and there is this apparent oligochaete (or not) which has a
> > lovely pair of delicate anal cirri.  It has a long prostomium, or perhaps it's the
> > pygidium if I've oriented it wrong way round (it's hard to say), is exceedingly thin
> > (0.15 mm w, & TL 10 mm) like a marine oligochaete, has mixed capillaries and
> > slightly thicker shorter unifid S-shaped single chaetae.  What do you reckon it
> > could be if not an oligochaete?  There are no tentacles along the body (as in
> > cirratulids and affiliates). There is a polygordiid genus which has chaetae, but
> > apparently not along the whole body as this worm has.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your ideas to enlighten me.
> 
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