Chrysopetalum
| Chrysopetalum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Chrysopetalidae |
| Subfamily: | Chrysopetalinae |
| Genus: | Ehlers, 1864 |
| Species | |
| several, including
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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 segment, on each side of body, disposed in a fan-shaped row of flat setae or paleae. Paleae broad and rather short. [1]
Chrysopetalum elegans is a synonym for Bhawania goodei.
References
- ^ Baird, W. 1870, Contributions towards a Monograph of the Species of Annelides belonging to the Amphinomacea, with a List of the known Species, and a Description of several new Species (belonging to the group) contained in the National Collection of the British Museum. To which is appended a short account of two hitherto nondescript annulose animals of a larval character. Journal of the Linnean Society of Zoology of London 10:215-250.