Bathytasmania
| Bathytasmania | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Levenstein, 1982 |
| Type species | |
| Bathytasmania insolita Levenstein, 1982[1] | |
Bathytasmania is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The only species, Bathytasmania insolita, is known from a single specimen collected at 4395m in the Tasman Sea south of Tasmania, Australia.[2]
Description
Bathytasmania has 19 segments and 10 pairs of elytra. A median antenna is present but lateral antennae are absent. Bidentate neurochaetae are absent and The first segment lacks chaetae. [2]
References
- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Bathytasmania Levenstein, 1982. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324923
- ^ a b Levenstein, R. Ya 1982. [New Genera of the Subfamily Macellicephalinae (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from the Tasman Hollow]. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 61(9): 1291–1296.