Hermodice carunculata (Pallas) is an Amphinomid po1ychaete commonly found throughout the Caribbean area (Marsden, 1960). It also occurs in the Gulf of Mexico (Hartman, 1951) and off the coast of southern Florida (Mullin, 1923). The family Amphinomidae includes the first species of annelids to be described from the Western Hemisphere. In the eighteenth century, some West Indian faunal collections were deposited in various museums of western Europe. At that time, a young physician, Peter Simon Pallas, became interested in these collections. [...]

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