Diagnosis
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Furcate setae, when present, with long thin tines. Parougia is very similar to Ougia Wolf (1986) in lacking basal plates in the inferior row of maxillae, in having well-developed head appendages and notopodia, and in having a pygidium with two dorsal anal cirri and a midventral cirrus. Parougia differs from Ougia in lacking, instead of having, maxillary carriers, in having superior row basal plates composed of fused free denticles rather than being a serrate plate, and in having dentate mandibles rather than smooth ones. Eibye-Jacobsen & Kristensen (1994) suggested an emendment regarding notopodia as "present throughout, biarticulate or lacking distal style, with internal notoaciculae" to accomodate their placement of Ougia macilenta in Parougia.
Wolf, Paul S. 1986. Three new species of Dorvilleidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Puerto Rico and Florida and a new genus for dorvillleids from Scandinavia and North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 99(4): 627-638.
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- Wolf, Paul S. 1986. Three new species of Dorvilleidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Puerto Rico and Florida and a new genus for dorvillleids from Scandinavia and North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 99(4): 627-638.
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- Read, Geoffrey, G.B.
