Australaugeneria pottsi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Subclass: | Errantia |
Order: | Phyllodocida |
Family: | Polynoidae |
Genus: | Australaugeneria |
Species: | A. pottsi
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Binomial name | |
Australaugeneria pottsi Pettibone, 1969
[1]
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Australaugeneria pottsi is a scale worm known from northern Australia from depths of 21m or less. [2] [3]
Number of segments 38; elytra 15 pairs. Depigmented. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). Notochaetae distinctly thicker than neurochaetae, or thinner than neurochaetae. Bidentate neurochaetae absent. [4]
A. pottsi is commensal. Its host taxa are alcyonacean corals.
Australaugeneria pottsi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Subclass: | Errantia |
Order: | Phyllodocida |
Family: | Polynoidae |
Genus: | Australaugeneria |
Species: | A. pottsi
|
Binomial name | |
Australaugeneria pottsi Pettibone, 1969
[1]
|
Australaugeneria pottsi is a scale worm known from northern Australia from depths of 21m or less. [2] [3]
Number of segments 38; elytra 15 pairs. Depigmented. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). Notochaetae distinctly thicker than neurochaetae, or thinner than neurochaetae. Bidentate neurochaetae absent. [4]
A. pottsi is commensal. Its host taxa are alcyonacean corals.