Pettibone, 1970
Description:
Body with numerous pairs of scales. Prostomium with a median antenna, a pair of auricles and a pair of palps. Peristomium with chaetae, a pair of lateral antennae, a pair of ctenidia, and two pairs of tentacular cirri. Parapodia with stylodes, ctenidia, branchial cirri from the 3rd chaetiger, and a pair of dorsal cirri on the 2nd chaetiger. Notopodial chaetae capillaries, neuropodial chaetae compounds.
The following species of this genus occurs in the region:
Neoleanira tetragona