All line drawings are by Bruce Barnes, excepting labelled sketches of pharyngeal types by B. Jamieson or diagrams taken from sources indiated on the figures.  Colour photographs are by G.Rouse, B. Jamieson or were donated to the latter by Dr Isobel Bennett, Mr Justice Myers, Owen Kelly and Tom Gorringe.They may not be reproduced without the permission of the author.

REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING

Dales R.P. 1962. The polychaete stomodaeum and the inter-relationships of the families of Polychaeta. Proc. Zool. Soc.Lond. 139: 389-428.

Dales R.P 1963. Annelids. Hutchinson University Library, London.

Fauchald K. 1977. The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science series, 28.

Rouse, G.W. and Fauchald, K. 1997. Cladistics and polychaetes. Zoologica Scripta, 26: 139-204.