Travisia Johnston, 1840

Avery, Lynda, Vodopyanov, Stephan & Wilson, Robin S., 2023, New species of Travisia Johnston, 1840 (Annelida, Travisiidae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971) from south-eastern Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria (Mem. Mus. Vic.) 82, pp. 133-142 : 135

Genus Travisia Johnston, 1840

Description. Body stout, pointed at both ends, fusiform, or grub-like, with or without lateral or ventral grooves. Peristomium not annulated. Subsequent segments annulated, with posterior segments forming folds ending in dorsal lappets. Epidermis papillated. Prostomium small, smooth, rounded, conical or truncate, without eyes; nuchal organs present. First chaetiger anterior to mouth. Parapodia reduced, small, smooth, or entirely absent. Branchiae usually present, rarely absent or unobservable, when present from chaetigers 2 or 3, cirriform or branched, sometimes annulated. Interramal pores present; lateral eyes absent. Chaetae simple capillaries, sometimes hispid. Pygidium small, cylindrical, longitudinally furrowed, with ring of stout equal or unequal pygidial lobes, with or without terminal anal papillae and internal pygidial cirri.

Type species. Travisia forbesii Johnston, 1840 .

Remarks. The description above follows Rizzo and Salazar-Vallejo (2020), with terminology slightly modified in accordance with the above character list and addition of statement that the peristomium is not annulated.