Pholoe Johnston, 1839

Ravara, Ascensão & Cunha, Marina R., 2016, Two new species of scale worms (Polychaeta: Aphroditiformia) from deep-sea habitats in the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic), Zootaxa 4097 (3), pp. 442-450 : 446

Genus Pholoe Johnston, 1839

Pholoe Johnston 1839 , p. 437.

Type species. Pholoe inornata Johnston, 1839 .

Diagnosis. Body small, with up to 90 segments. Elytra on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, alternating to 23, then on every segment to end of body. Elytra delicate, with border and sometimes also surface papillae. Dorsal cirri and branchiae absent. Prostomium triangular or rounded to bilobed. Median antennae inserted on anterior notch without auricles. Lateral antennae present or absent. Palps stout, emerging ventrolaterally to tentaculophores. Eyes present or absent. Tentacular segment fused to prostomium, with two pairs of subequal tentacular cirri, without chaetae. Parapodia biramous; acicular lobes conical with or without papillae, ventral much longer than dorsal. Notochaetae capillary, lightly spinulose, straight or geniculate. Neurochaetae compound, with subdistally spinose shafts and falcate blades. Pygidium with a pair of anal cirri.