Bathyeliasona abyssicola

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Bathyeliasona abyssicola
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Bathyeliasona
Species:
B. abyssicola
Binomial name
Bathyeliasona abyssicola
(Fauvel, 1913) [1]

Bathyeliasona abyssicola is a deep-sea scale worm which occurs widely across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and over a wide depth range, from 4000m to 8000m. [2] [3]

Description

Bathyeliasona abyssicola has 18 segments, with 8 pairs of elytra and no pigmentation. The anterior margin of the prostomium comprises a pair of acute anterior projections. Lateral antennae are absent. The notochaetae are thinner than the neurochaetae, with bidentate neurochaetae absent. [4]

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References

  1. Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Bathyeliasona abyssicola (Fauvel, 1913). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=130726
  2. Pettibone, Marian H. (1976). Revision of the genus Macellicephala McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 229: 1-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.229
  3. Budaeva N.E., Jirkov I.A., Savilova T.A., Paterson G.L.J. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Polychaeta. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 217–230 [in English]
  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.