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Chrysopetalum

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Chrysopetalum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Chrysopetalidae
Subfamily: Chrysopetalinae
Genus: Chrysopetalum
Ehlers, 1864
Species

several, including

Chrysopetalum is a genus of polychaete worms.

Genus description

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Feet uniramose, furnished with only one tuft of setae. Headlobe with four or (?) two eyes, a tentacle, two antennae, and two palpi. The first segment of body provided with four cirri on each side; the succeeding segments with a cirrus on each side. Body nearly as broad as long. Branchiae placed on each segment, on each side of body, disposed in a fan-shaped row of flat setae or paleae. Paleae broad and rather short. [1]

Chrysopetalum elegans is a synonym for Bhawania goodei.

References

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  1. ^ Baird, W. 1870, Contributions towards a Monograph of the Species of Annelides belonging to the Amphinomacea, with a List of the known Species, and a Description of several new Species (belonging to the group) contained in the National Collection of the British Museum. To which is appended a short account of two hitherto nondescript annulose animals of a larval character. Journal of the Linnean Society of Zoology of London 10:215-250.