Lepidonotus Leach, 1816

De Assis, Jose Eriberto, de Brito, Rafael Justino, Christoffersen, Martin Lindsey & de Souza, Jose Roberto Botelho, 2015, A catalogue of the scaleworm genus Lepidonotus (Polynoidae, Polychaeta) from South America, with two new records for Brazilian waters, ZooKeys 533, pp. 63-98 : 64-65

Genus Lepidonotus Leach, 1816

Type species.

Aphrodita clava Montagu, 1808

Leach 1816, Hanley and Burke 1991, Ruff 1995, Chambers and Muir 1997, Barnich and Fiege 2003.

Diagnosis.

Body short, arched, with 26 segments. Bilobed prostomium extending anteriorly into ceratophores of terminally-attached lateral antennae. Antennae and cirri smooth. Facial tubercle present; buccal segment with or without nuchal fold. Twelve pairs of elytra on segments 2, 4, 5, 7.... 21 and 23. Notopodia small or vestigial; unidentate notochaetae short, slender, spinose, or notochaetae capillaries sometimes present. Neuropodia large, with or without acicular lobe; neurochaetae stout, long, with subdistal spines and unidentate or occasionally bidentate tips.

Remarks.

The genus Lepidonotus contains more than 70 species distributed worldwide ( Ruff 1995). However, only 18 species and subspecies have been reported for South America, including the two new records described here.