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Mr. Montagu's Descriptions of Terebella, &c.
Spec. 5.Terebella venustula.
Tab. XIII. Fig. 2.
T. with orange-red body, thickly and minutely marked with white spots.
First seventeen or eighteen joints furnished with short peduncles and fasciculi: other joints with long peduncles and no visible bristles. Capillary appendages whitish, very slender, numerous, and nearly double the length of the body. We have observed this animal fixing its tentacula, and by contracting them drawing its body forwards.
Length rarely more than three or four inches.
Taken by dredging on the southern coast of Devon at Torcross.
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