Benthoscolex Horst, 1912

Jimi, Naoto, Kimura, Taeko, Ogawa, Akito & Kajihara, Hiroshi, 2018, A new species of the rare, deep-sea polychaete genus Benthoscolex from the Sea of Kumano, Japan (Annelida, Amphinomidae), ZooKeys 738, pp. 81-88 : 81

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.738.22927
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scientific name	Benthoscolex Horst, 1912
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Genus Benthoscolex Horst, 1912 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Body fusiform, flat. Eyes absent. Caruncle consisting of three ridges without ornamentation. Branchiae absent at least in first five chaetigers, dendritically branched. Dorsal and ventral cirri occur singly on the notopodium and neuropodium.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Annelida
Class	Polychaeta
Order	Amphinomida
Family	Amphinomidae

Specimens

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