Bathyadmetella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Subclass: | Errantia |
Order: | Phyllodocida |
Family: | Polynoidae |
Genus: |
Bathyadmetella Pettibone, 1967 |
Type species | |
Bathyadmetella commando Pettibone, 1967
[1] |
Bathyadmetella is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The only species in the genus, Bathyadmetella commando, is known from a single specimen collected at 1646m in the north-west Pacific Ocean. [2]
Bathyadmetella commando has 58 segments and 23 pairs of elytra, with reddish-brown body pigmentation. The lateral antennae are inserted terminally on the anterior margin of the prostomium, with auxiliary appendages at the base of the lateral antennae. Bidentate neurochaetae are absent. [3]
Bathyadmetella | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Subclass: | Errantia |
Order: | Phyllodocida |
Family: | Polynoidae |
Genus: |
Bathyadmetella Pettibone, 1967 |
Type species | |
Bathyadmetella commando Pettibone, 1967
[1] |
Bathyadmetella is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The only species in the genus, Bathyadmetella commando, is known from a single specimen collected at 1646m in the north-west Pacific Ocean. [2]
Bathyadmetella commando has 58 segments and 23 pairs of elytra, with reddish-brown body pigmentation. The lateral antennae are inserted terminally on the anterior margin of the prostomium, with auxiliary appendages at the base of the lateral antennae. Bidentate neurochaetae are absent. [3]