Bathytasmania Explained

Bathytasmania is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The only species, Bathytasmania insolita, is known from a single specimen collected at 4395m in the Tasman Sea south of Tasmania, Australia.[1]

Description

Bathytasmania has 19 segments and 10 pairs of elytra. A median antenna is present but lateral antennae are absent. Bidentate neurochaetae are absent and The first segment lacks chaetae.

Notes and References

  1. Levenstein, R. Ya 1982. [New Genera of the Subfamily Macellicephalinae (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from the Tasman Hollow]. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 61(9): 1291–1296.