Hermadionella chayvoensis

Hermadionella chayvoensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Subclass:	Errantia
Order:	Phyllodocida
Family:	Polynoidae
Genus:	Hermadionella
Species:	H. chayvoensis
Binomial name
	Hermadionella chayvoensis; Alalykina, 2011

Hermadionella chayvoensis is a scale worm known from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north-west Pacific Ocean from depths of about 50 m (160 ft).^[2]

Description

Hermadionella chayvoensis is a short-bodied scale worm with 50–54 segments and 15 pairs of elytra. Lateral antennae are positioned ventrally on the prostomium (directly beneath median antenna ceratophore and almost obscured in dorsal view. The notochaetae are distinctly thicker than the neurochaetae and neurochaetae with bidentate tips are absent.^[2]

References

↑ Read G, Fauchald K (eds.). "Hermadionella chayvoensis Alalykina, 2011". World Polychaeta Database. World Register of Marine Species.
1 2 Alalykina, I.L. (2011). "Hermadionella chayvoensis sp.n., a new polynoid species (Polychaeta) from the Shelf of Northeastern Sakhalin Island (the Sea of Okhotsk)". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 90 (5): 624–627.

[1] Read G, Fauchald K (eds.). "Hermadionella chayvoensis Alalykina, 2011". World Polychaeta Database. World Register of Marine Species.

[alal-2] 1 2 Alalykina, I.L. (2011). "Hermadionella chayvoensis sp.n., a new polynoid species (Polychaeta) from the Shelf of Northeastern Sakhalin Island (the Sea of Okhotsk)". Zoologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 90 (5): 624–627.

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