Australaugeneria rutilans

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Australaugeneria rutilans
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Australaugeneria
Species:
A. rutilans
Binomial name
Australaugeneria rutilans
(Grube, 1878) [1]

Australaugeneria rutilans is a scale worm known from northern Australia, south-east Asia and the Persian Gulf, from depths of 28m or less. [2] [3]

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Description

Number of segments 40; elytra 15 pairs. Clear, white no pigments other than black eyes. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). Notochaetae about as thick as neurochaetae. Bidentate neurochaetae absent. [4]

Commensalism

Australaugeneria rutilans is commensal. Its host taxa are alcyonacean corals.

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References

  1. Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Australaugeneria rutilans (Grube, 1878). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=333061
  2. Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg. (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218
  3. Pettibone, Marian H. 1969. Review of some species referred to Scalisetosus McIntosh (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82: 1-30., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3412
  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.