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Hermadionella chayvoensis

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Hermadionella chayvoensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Hermadionella
Species:
H. chayvoensis
Binomial name
Hermadionella chayvoensis
Alalykina, 2011[1]

Hermadionella chayvoensis is a scale worm known from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north-west Pacific Ocean from depths of about 50 m.[2]

Description

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Hermadionella chayvoensis is a short-bodied scale worm with 50–54 segments and 15 pairs of elytra. Lateral antennae are positioned ventrally on the prostomium (directly beneath median antenna ceratophore and almost obscured in dorsal view. The notochaetae are distinctly thicker than the neurochaetae and neurochaetae with bidentate tips are absent.[2]


References

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  1. ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Hermadionella chayvoensis Alalykina, 2011. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=577362
  2. ^ a b Alalykina, I.L. (2011). Hermadionella chayvoensis sp.n., a new polynoid species (Polychaeta) from the Shelf of Northeastern Sakhalin Island (the Sea of Okhotsk). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 90, 624-627., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260677211_Hermadionella_chayvoensis_sp_n_a_new_polynoid_species_Annelida_from_the_shelf_of_north_east_Sakhalin_Island_Sea_of_Okhotsk