Notomastus M. Sars, 1851

Hernandez-Alcantara, Pablo, Garcia-Garza, Maria E. & Solis-Weiss, Vivianne, 2022, Notomastus bermejoi, a new species of Capitellidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Gulf of California, with morphological remarks on species with hooks in thoracic chaetigers, ZooKeys 1102, pp. 43-58 : 43

Genus Notomastus M. Sars, 1851

Type species.

Notomastus latericeus M. Sars, 1851: 199-200.

Diagnosis.

The genus Notomastus has a conical prostomium, palpode present or absent; eyespots present in multiple spots or absent. Peristomium clearly distinct from prostomium. First chaetiger uniramous or biramous. Eleven thoracic chaetigers. Chaetigers 1-11 with only capillaries or last 1-3 thoracic chaetigers with notopodial capillaries and neuropodial hooks. Abdominal segments with only hooded hooks. Branchiae present or lacking. Genital pores present or absent. Lateral organs present on thorax and abdomen. Pygidium unadorned but unknown for many species ( Magalhães and Blake 2019).