Diagnosis
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Emended diagnosis by Salazar-Vallejo et al. (2007: 473): ''Body cylindrical. No cephalic hood. Body papillae reduced, lateral papillae elongate, cirriform. Body covered by a thick tunic adhering foreign particles. Without notochaetae. Neurochaetae compound neurohooks, with outer chaetal cortex with successive bands of denticles. Branchiae two pairs in segments 1–2. Nephridial lobes not observed. Benthic forms.''
Salazar-Vallejo, S.I.; Gillet, P.; Carrera-Parra, L.F. (2007). Revision of
Chauvinelia, redescriptions of
Flabelliseta incrusta, and
Helmetophorus rankini, and their recognition as acrocirrids (Polychaeta: Acrocirridae).
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 87(02): 465-477.
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- Salazar-Vallejo, S.I.; Gillet, P.; Carrera-Parra, L.F. (2007). Revision of <i>Chauvinelia</i>, redescriptions of <i>Flabelliseta incrusta</i>, and <i>Helmetophorus rankini</i>, and their recognition as acrocirrids (Polychaeta: Acrocirridae). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 87(02): 465-477. Hartman, O. (1978). Polychaeta from the Weddell Sea quadrant, Antarctica. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 26(4): 125-223.
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- João Gil [email]
