Benthoscolex Horst, 1912

Jimi, Naoto, Kimura, Taeko, Ogawa, Akito & Kajihara, Hiroshi, 2018, A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from the Sea of Kumano, Japan (Annelida, Amphinomidae), ZooKeys 738, pp. 81-88 : 81

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.738.22927

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C0C7CC5E-B5B7-4CF3-8DF7-C52567C24819

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DDB27BE6-A51B-144E-768E-817383BE25FA

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scientific name

Benthoscolex Horst, 1912
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Genus Benthoscolex Horst, 1912 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Body fusiform, flat. Eyes absent. Caruncle consisting of three ridges without ornamentation. Branchiae absent at least in first five chaetigers, dendritically branched. Dorsal and ventral cirri occur singly on the notopodium and neuropodium.