Saphobranchia Chamberlin 1919
- Dataset
- Four new deep-water flabelligerid species from Pacific Costa Rica (Annelida Sedentaria, Flabelligeridae)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Annelida
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Terebellida
- family
- Flabelligeridae
- genus
- Saphobranchia
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Flabelligerids with body anteriorly swollen, tapered posteriorly. Cephalic cage made by chaetigers 1 – 2 (rarely only chaetiger 1), with more than four chaetae per bundle. Integument thin with long papillae, each with mud particles. Branchial plate with eight branchial filaments of one type, cirriform. Parapodia sometimes laterally projected. Notochaetae and neurochaetae abundant, usually as long as body width, or longer. Neurochaetae basally anchylosed, medially and distally multiarticulate.
type_taxon
Type species. Stylarioides longisetosus von Marenzeller, 1890, by original designation.