Macellicephala McIntosh 1885
Description
Macellicephala McIntosh, 1885 amended by Pettibone, 1976
Type species: Polynoe (Macellicephala) mirabilis McIntosh, 1885, by monotypy. Gender: feminine. = Macellicephala mirabilis McIntosh, 1885.
Diagnosis. Body with 18 segments. Elytra and elytrophores 9 pairs, on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17. Prostomium bilobed, with or without paired frontal filaments; with median antenna and smooth palps. Pharynx with 9 pairs of papillae and 2 pairs of jaws, with smooth margins. Segment 1 [(= tentacular segment, as used by Pettibone (1976)]) without chaetae. Segment 2 with buccal (ventral) cirri longer than following ventral cirri, attached to basal parts of parapodia lateral to mouth. Parapodia biramous, with shorter notopodia and long neuropodia, both rami with elongate acicular processes. Nephridial papillae present from fifth segment, usually largest on segments 10, 11 and 12. Pygidium medial to greatly reduced parapodia of segment 18.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Polynoidae
- Genus
- Macellicephala
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Phyllodocida
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Scientific name authorship
- McIntosh
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macellicephala McIntosh, 1885 sec. Neal, Brasier & Wiklund, 2018
References
- McIntosh, W. C. (1885) Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873 - 76. Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger 1873 - 76, 12, 1 - 554.
- Pettibone, M. H. (1976) Revision of the Genus Macellicephala McIntosh and the Subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann- Schroder (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 229, 1 - 71.