Benhamisetosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Benhamisetosus
Averincev, 1978
Type species
Benhamisetosus australiensis (Benham, 1915)[1]

Benhamisetosus is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus contains a single species, Benhamisetosus australiensis, known from the south coast of Australia and the Tasman Sea.[2]

Description

In Benhamisetosus australiensis the number of pairs of elytra is unknown since the type specimens are incomplete. The lateral antennae are inserted ventrally (beneath the prostomium and median antenna) and the neuropodia are elongate and tapering. The notochaetae are about as thick as the neurochaetae. The neurochaetae each have a distinctive half-moon shaped pocket on one side formed by a curved row of fine teeth, and neurochaetae with both unidentate and bidentate tips are present.[3]


References

  1. ↑ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Benhamisetosus Averincev, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324927
  2. ↑ Averincev, V. G. (1978). The Polychaetous Annelids of the Aphroditiformia of the Shelf and Upper Bathial of Australian and New Zealand Region and of Macquarie Island (on the Base Data of 16th Cruise of R/V Dmitri Mendeleev).]. Transactions of the P.P.Shirov Institute of Oceanology Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. 113: 51-72.
  3. ↑ Benham, W.B. (1915). [part 1] Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. 'Endeavour' on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, Part 1. Biological Results of the Fisheries Expedition F.I.S. Volume 3(4). 171–237. H.C. Dannevig. Sydney.


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