Genus Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977

Leitoscoloplos Day, 1977: 218, fig. 1a–g.

Leitoscoloplos .— Mackie 1987: 2; Eibye-Jacobsen 2002: 79; Hernández-Alcántara & Solís-Weiss 2014: 142 –143.

Type-species. Haploscoloplos bifurcatus Hartman, 1957: 277 –279; by original designation.

Diagnosis. Prostomium pointed, conical; one achaetous peristomial ring. Thoracic neurochaetae with only crenulated capillaries; abdominal furcate notochaetae present or absent. Branchiae simple or branched, either present from posterior thoracic, transitional or abdominal chaetigers, or absent. Interramal cirri present or absent. Posterior thoracic neuropodia with up to six podal papillae. Subpodal and stomach papillae absent, or with up to eight subpodal papillae per parapodium and with numerous stomach papillae in the posterior thorax / anterior abdomen.