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Bathyeliasona nigra

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Species of annelid

Bathyeliasona nigra
Bathyeliasona nigra specimen in dorsal view from Museums Victoria.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Bathyeliasona
Species: B. nigra
Binomial name
Bathyeliasona nigra
(Hartman, 1967)

Bathyeliasona nigra is a deep-sea scale worm which occurs widely in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans from a depth range of about 2,500-5,000m.

Description

Bathyeliasona nigra has 18 segments and 8 pairs of elytra, with slaty-black pigmentation. The anterior margin of the prostomium comprises a pair of acute anterior projections and the lateral antennae are absent. The notochaetae are about as thick as the neurochaetae and bidentate neurochaetae are absent.

References

  1. Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Bathyeliasona nigra (Hartman, 1967). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428592
  2. ^ Pettibone MH (1976) Revision of the genus Macellicephala McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 229: 1–71. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.229.
Taxon identifiers
Bathyeliasona nigra


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