Australaugeneria pottsi

Australaugeneria pottsi
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]}

Description

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]

Commensalism

A. pottsi is commensal. Its host taxa are alcyonacean corals.

References

1. Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Australaugeneria pottsi Pettibone, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327025
2. Pettibone, Marian H. 1969. Australaugeneria pottsi, new name for Polynoe longicirrus Potts, from the Maldive Islands (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82: 519-524.
3. Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series: Zoology. 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16399262
4. Fauchald, K.; Wilson, R.S. (2003). "Polynoidae (Polychaeta)-A DELTA database of genera, and Australian species". In R.S. Wilson; P.A. Hutchings; C. J. Glasby (eds.). Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.