Genus Scoloplos Blainville, 1828

Scoloplos Blainville, 1828: 493 .

Scoloplos (Scoloplos) .— Hartman 1957: 280; Pettibone 1957: 160; Day 1973: 84; Mackie 1987: 20.

Type-species. Lumbricus armiger O. F. Müller, 1776: 215; by original designation.

Diagnosis. Prostomium pointed, conical; single achaetous peristomial ring. Thoracic neuropodia bearing crenulated capillaries and hooks arranged in one or more rows; abdominal furcate and flailed notochaetae present or absent. Abdominal neuropodia lack robust emergent aciculae. Branchiae simple or branched, from chaetiger 8 or later. 1–2 thoracic neuropodial podal papillae, 0–2 thoracic subpodal papillae, 0–4 abdominal subpodal papillae, stomach papillae absent.