Platynereis Kinberg 1866

Read, Geoffrey B., 2007, Taxonomy of sympatric New Zealand species of Platynereis, with description of three new species additional to P. australis (Schmarda) (Annelida: Polychaeta: Nereididae), Zootaxa 1558, pp. 1-28 : 4

Genus Platynereis Kinberg 1866

Includes Iphinereis Malmgren, 1865 ; Pisenoe Kinberg, 1866 ; Leontis Malmgren, 1867 ; Nectonereis Verrill, 1873 , Uncinereis Chamberlin, 1919 .

Type species: Platynereis magalhaensis Kinberg 1866 , by subsequent designation ( Hartman 1948)

Diagnosis. Proboscis with chitinous paragnaths in form of parallel rows of minute pectinate bars usually present on all areas except I, II, and V. Prostomium with 2 antennae, biarticulate palps, and 2 pairs of eyes; 4 pairs of tentacular cirri. Peristomial segment apodous and first 2 parapodia sub-biramous. Chaetae include spinigers and falcigers. Homogomph notopodial falcigers usually present, at least in juveniles.

Remarks. Recent morphology-based parsimony analyses of taxa selected as representative of the Nereididae genera have maintained Platynereis as monophyletic ( Bakken & Wilson 2005; Santos et al. 2005).