Hesperonoe Chamberlin, 1919

Hong, Jae-Sang, Lee, Chae-Lin & Sato, Masanori, 2017, A review of three species of Hesperonoe (Annelida: Polynoidae) in Asia, with descriptions of two new species and a new record of Hesperonoe hwanghaiensis from Korea, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 51 (47 - 48), pp. 2925-2945 : 2927

Genus Hesperonoe Chamberlin, 1919

(New Korean name: Ssok-deung-bi-neul-gaet-ji-reong-i)

Hesperonoe Chamberlin, 1919: 252 ; Fauchald, 1977: 62; Uschakov, 1982: 144; Ruff, 1995: 136; Jirkov, 2001: 161.

Type species

Hesperonoe senilis Chamberlin, 1919 , synonymized to Hesperonoe complanata ( Johnson, 1901) by Berkeley and Berkeley (1935).

Diagnosis (based on Fauchald 1977; Ruff 1995)

Body flattened with about 40 segments, having 15 pairs of elytra on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9,... 23, 26, 29 and 32; elytra completely covering dorsum. Bilobed prostomium with cephalic peaks; ceratophores of lateral antennae inserted beneath anterior margin. Parapodia biramous. Notochaetae more or less serrated, consisting of two different forms: upper notochaetae thick with blunt tip; lower notochaetae longer, more slender with pointed tip. Neurochaetae all unidentate and serrated, consisting of two forms: upper neurochaetae slender with long spinous region tapering to fine tip; lower neurochaetae thick with expanded subdistal spinous region and smooth tip.

Hesperonoe hwanghaiensis Uschakov and Wu, 1959