Bathypolaria Levenstein, 1981: 27

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Bathypolaria Levenstein, 1981: 27 . – Jirkov, 2001: 130.

Type species: Bathypolaria carinata Levenstein, 1981 .

Diagnosis: Short body, 15 segments. Prostomium bilobed. Frontal filaments absent. Eyes absent. Median antenna present, lateral antennae absent. Facial tubercle absent. Tentaculophores without chaetae. Pharynx with two pairs of jaws, small secondary tooth in margin; with seven pairs of pharyngeal papillae. Dorsal tubercles absent. Elytrophores small, eight pairs, on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15. Parapodia subbiramous, notopodia shorter than neuropodia; noto- and neuropodia with elongate acicular lobe; tips of noto- and neuroaciculae not penetrating epidermis. Notochaetae flattened, with spines on convex side, smooth on straight side, stout; notochaetae stouter than neurochaetae. Neurochaetae distally flattened to concave, serrated along both margins. From segment 3, ventral cirri inserted subdistally on neuropodia. Posterior end with a ventral keel.