Psamathini

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Psamathini
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Psamathini

Pleijel, 1998
Genera

5-8, see text

Psamathini are a tribe of phyllodocid "bristle worms" (class Polychaeta) in the family Hesionidae. They are (like almost all polychaetes) marine organisms; most are found on the continental shelf, but some have adapted to greater depths down to the abyssal plain. [1]

Their dorsal cirri alternate, and they usually lack facial tubercles. Most have prolonged teeth on the chaetal blades. 5 genera are placed in the Psamathini with certainty, and three further ones are often included here too in recent times, to make this tribe refer to a distinct clade of polychaetes: [2]

Footnotes

  1. Pleijel et al. (2008)
  2. Pleijel et al. (2008), WoRMS (2008)

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