Kingdom Animalia Class Polychaeta Order Phyllodocida Rank Genus | Phylum Annelida Subclass Aciculata Superfamily Chrysopetalacea | |
Similar Sthenelais, Hesionidae, Pilargidae, Sigalionidae, Aphroditidae | ||
Chrysopetalum is a genus of polychaete worms.
Genus description
Feet uniramose, furnished with only one tuft of setae. Headlobe with four or (?) two eyes, a tentacle, two antennae, and two palpi. The first segment of body provided with four cirri on each side ; the succeeding segments with a cirrus on each side. Body nearly as broad as long. Branchiae placed on each seg- ment, on each side of body, disposed in a fan-shaped row of flat setae or paleae. Paleae broad and rather short.
Chrysopetalum elegans is a synonym for Bhawania goodei.
References
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