NEREIDIDAE de Blainville, 1818

Conde-Vela, Víctor Manuel, 2021, Revision of Ceratonereis Kinberg, 1865 recorded from the Caribbean Sea, with description of two new Ceratonereis species and a new combination of Platynereis Kinberg, 1865, Zootaxa 5026 (3), pp. 301-343 : 303

Family NEREIDIDAE de Blainville, 1818

Genus Ceratonereis Kinberg, 1865

Ceratonereis Kinberg, 1865: 170 .

Type species. Ceratonereis mirabilis Kinberg, 1865 , by subsequent designation ( Hartman 1948).

Diagnosis for atoke specimens (emended from Bakken & Wilson 2005, new features highlighted in boldface). Prostomium with anterior margin deeply incised. Two antennae subulate or lanceolate, two palps with cylindrical palps and rounded or pyriform palpostyles, four eyes, four pairs of anterior cirri with cirrostyles long and slender, present. Maxillary ring with conical paragnaths in areas II–IV, area I with or without paragnaths. Oral ring with papillae on areas VI, areas V and VII–VIII bare; areas VI-V-VI λ-shaped. Paired oesophageal caeca absent. Dorsal cirri with cirrophores and cirrostyles distinct. Dorsal ligules strongly reduced or absent in posterior chaetigers.