Paradoneis armata Glémarec, 1966

Paradoneis armata Glémarec, 1966: 1046 –1049, figs. 1B–C, 2; Kirkegaard 1996: 29 –31, fig. 11; Aguirrezabalaga 2012: 248 – 251, figs. 110–111.

Cirrophorus armatus .— Strelzov 1973: 111 –113, fig. 47A–E; Hartmann-Schröder 1996: 383 –384, fig. 180.

Records from Norwegian or adjacent waters. Forties oilfield, North Sea (Hartley 1981).

Diagnosis. Antenna and secondary ciliary organs absent. Three prebranchial segments. Branchiae numbering up to 18 pairs; branchiae ciliated, with wide base and rounded tip, those of posterior branchial chaetigers clearly thinner. Modified notochaetae forked in anterior chaetigers, then acicular and with a subdistal spine attached to a conspicuous knob on the stem. All neurochaetae capillaries (Aguirrezabalaga 2012).

Distribution. Eastern Atlantic, from North Sea (Hartley 1981) to Portugal (Gil & Sardà 1999). Mediterranean (Laubier & Ramos 1974). Morocco and Ivory Coast (Hartmann-Schröder 1996). Thailand (Lovell 2002). Western Mexico (de León–González et al. 2006).