Subadyte campechensis explained

Subadyte campechensis is a scale worm known from a single specimen collected in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 640 m.[1]

Description

The single specimen is fragmentary making the total number of segments unknown, but is presumably short-bodied with 15 pairs of elytra. The species is rather transparent, except for some brownish pigment on ceratophores of antennae, yellow and brownish pigmentation on dorsum and dark pharynx. The lateral antennae are positioned ventrally on prostomium, directly beneath median antenna ceratophore. The notochaetae are distinctly thicker than the neurochaetae, which also possess bidentate tips.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Barnich, Ruth; Beuck, Lydia; Freiwald, André. (2013). Scale worms (Polychaeta: Aphroditiformia) associated with cold-water corals in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 93(8): 2129–2143., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531541300088X.