Serpula narconensis Baird, 1865
Plate XXX, fig. 10, and Plate XLV, fig. 1
Serpula Narconensis Baird, 1865, p. 21. ‘Narcon land.'
Serpula patagonica Grube, 1877a, pp. 550-551. Pa gonia, in 60 fms; Kerguelen Islands.
Serpula narconensis magellanica McIntosh, 1885. 518-519, pl. 55, fig. 2; pl. 31a, figs. 24,25. Str of Magellan, in 175 fms.
Serpula vermicularis Ehlers, 1897, p. 140. Strait Magellan, in 60 fms.
Ehlers, 1900a, p. 17. Strait of Magellan, in 15-1 fms.
Ehlers, 1901, p. 219. Strait of Magellan. Gravier, 1907, pp. 62-63. Booth Island, in 40 in Gravier, 1911a, pp. 147-148, pl. 12, figs. 171-1Petermann Island, low tide, to 380 m.
Pixell, 1913, p. 348, pl. 49, fig. 1. Scotia Bay, So Orkney Islands, Burdwood Bank, in depths to fms.
Monro, 1930, p. 206. South Georgia and Palmer Archipelago, in 93-728 m.
Monro, 1936, p. 191. Numerous stations in Antarctic regions.
Serpula vermicularis narconensis Ehlers, 1912, p. 31. Ross Sea, in 10-100 fms.
Ehlers, 1913, p. 581. Wilhelm II Coast, in 385 m. Benham, 1921, p. 112. New Zealand sector, in 25– 400 fms.
Benham, 1927, p. 145. McMurdo Sound, in 45-300 fms.
Augener, 1923b, p. 71. Bouvet Island, in 200-300 m. Fauvel, 1936, p. 38. Throughout Antarctic areas. Monro, 1939, pp. 149-150. Off Enderby and Mac.Robertson lands, in 163-540 m.
Fauvel, 1941, p. 295. Off Cape Horn, dredged. Hartman, 1952, p. 237. Ross Island, Knox Coast, and Marguerite Bay, in 35-150 fms.
Knox, 1962, p. 347. Mac. Robertson Land.
Diagnosis: Tubes of large specimens measure to 130 mm long by 8 mm wide, often tinged with yellow; sometimes with successive raised rings (pl. XXX, fig. 10) ; smaller tubes only 75 mm long and 4 mm wide, without color, and with few or no successive rings. Specimen removed from tube, 23-30 mm long by 1-2 mm across, consists of 60 to 70 setigerous segments; larger specimens to 35 mm long by 4 mm wide, with 80 to 90 segments. Operculum on long peduncle, distally funnellike (pl. XLV, fig. 1) , extending beyond tips of radioles. Tubes massed or solitary. Collar setae with 2 or 4 smaller processes subdistally.
Distribution: Throughout Antarctic area into Strait of Magellan region; in low tide to moderate depths.
(Hartman 1966)
