Figure 5. A–E in Descriptions of New Serpulid Polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and Discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific Species of Spirobranchus and Superficially Similar Taxa

Figure 5. A–E, Vermiliopsis glandigera Gravier, 1908, figured from two specimens from AM W21470; A and B from first specimen; C–E from a second specimen: (A) worm in situ within its tube; (B) worm removed from tube showing the transparent partitioned operculum, its bulb-shaped basal part, the conspicuous annulus just below the latter, pinnule-free radiolar tips and extent of the thoracic membranes; (C) tube; D,E, worm removed from its tube: (D) worm showing distal end of the chitinous part of the operculum contracted into a concavity, and bears a small digitiform process in its centre; (E) another view of worm showing the transparent distal part of the operculum; the large annulus at the distal end of the peduncle has assumed the shape of a ventrally directed projection in alcohol.