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ABOUT the middle of September I received from Dr H. F. Parsons, of Croydon, a fresh-water Annelid which had been found in the water supply of Ring-wood, Hants, and sent to the Local Government Board for identification. It proved to be an immature but very beautiful specimen of Rhynchelmis limosella, Hoffm., a member of the Lumbriculidæ. It is of peculiar interest, inasmuch as it confirms a suspicion expressed by Beddard in 1895. He remarks (“Monograph of the Order Oligochæta,” p. 215) that “the genus Rhynchelmis is, so far as our present knowledge goes, confined to the fresh waters of Europe. … I have seen a specimen from some part of England, but cannot give any details. I believe this specimen to be in the Oxford Museum. There is every probability that it is a native of this country.”
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FRIEND, H. A New Aquatic Annelid. Nature 92, 132 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092132a0
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