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SEVERAL accounts of the nephridia of Terebella conchilega, have been given. H. Milne-Edwards (Ann. d. Sci, Nat. (2) Zoologie, x., 1838, p. 220), in a paper published in 1838, on the circulation in Annelids, describes the vascular system in a, species to which he gives this name, and gives a figure of the animal opened along the dorsal median line. In this figure four looped nephridia are distinctly shown, situated behind the branchial region. The representation of the position and character of these organs is perfectly correct so far as it goes: they are the upper parts of the four nephridia belonging to somites 6–9. But the paper I refer to does not describe the nephridia, as it deals with another subject: they are shown in the figure, and that is all; and in the description of the figure the organs are referred to as organs of generation.
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"Glandes génitales et Organes segmentaires des Annélides polychètes" (Arch. de Zool. Exp., t. viii., 1879–80).
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The Nephridia of “Lanice Conchilega,” Malmgren 1 . Nature 36, 162–163 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036162a0
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