Leodamas Kinberg 1866
- Dataset
- Review of Orbiniidae (Annelida, Sedentaria) from Australia
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Annelida
- class
- Polychaeta
- family
- Orbiniidae
- genus
- Leodamas
diagnosis
Diagnosis (after Zhadan et al. 2015). Prostomium acutely pointed, usually prolonged; one achaetous peristomial ring. Thoracic neuropodia bearing large and numerous hooks accompanied by few or no crenulated capillaries, abdominal forked notochaetae present or absent, abdominal neuropodia possess robust emergent aciculae. Branchiae simple or branched, first present from chaetiger 5 – 7. Thoracic neuropodial podal papillae, subpodial papillae, stomach papillae present or absent.
discussion
Remarks. Blake (2017) undertook a morphological revision of the genus Leodamas and divided it into two groups, A and B. Group B includes species with branchiae on the posterior thoracic chaetiger or anterior abdominal chaetiger (12 – 40) and thoracic neuropodial uncini in 1 – 2 vertical rows. Some of the species in this group were previously referred to as Scoloplos. In the present paper, these species are still regarded as belonging to Scoloplos (see Remarks of the genus Scoloplos).
Name
- Homonyms
- Leodamas Kinberg 1866