Chloeia entypa Chamberlin, 1919

Chloeia entypa Chamberlin, 1919: 30–31, Pl. 13, Figs 8, 9, Pl. 14, Figs 1, 2; Treadwell 1937: 147; Hartman 1939: 8; Hartman 1940: 205–206, Pl. 32, Figs 14–20; Hartman 1959: 131; Fauchald & Reimer 1975: 82; Fauchald, 1977: 11; Barroso & Paiva 2011: 422, Tab. 1; Yánez-Rivera & Salazar-Vallejo 2022: 511, Fig. 3 (redescr.).

Chloeia pinnata: Monro 1933: 7–8, Textfig. 3 (non Moore, 1911).

Diagnosis. Chloeia with bipinnate branchiae from chaetiger 4, progressively smaller posteriorly; dorsum colorless; caruncle blunt, pale; notochaetae furcates; neurochaetae furcates.

Remarks. The species was described as having a yellowish dorsum with deep purple dorsal cirri, but it had been for about 30 years in ethanol by time it was studied by Chamberlin (1919). Extensive deep-water studies along Western Mexico (Fauchald 1972), or in the Gulf of California (Méndez 2007) were unsuccessful in collecting fresh specimens.

Monro (1933: 7) indicated that the preserved specimens had a middorsal purplish-brown line, and that dorsal cirri were chocolate brown in living specimens. Fauchald & Reimer (1975: 82) indicated a single dorsal longitudinal red brownish band. This middorsal band was not reported by Chamberlin, such that there might be more than one species.