Johnston, 1839
Description:
Body flattened, with numerous pairs of scales. Prostomium with a median antenna and a pair of palps.
Peristomium limited to lips.
First segment achaetous, curved around prostomium with two pairs of tentacular cirri. First neuropodia fused to lower side of head.
Parapodia biramous. Scales present on chaetigers 1, 3, 4 and 6, then alternately to the 22nd and then on all segments. The first pair are round, the rest oval to kidney-shaped. Dorsal cirri absent . Ventral cirri present. Notopodial chaetae variously ornamented capillaries and neuropodial chaetae compounds with short, unidentate blades.
Pygidium with one pair of cirri.
Pharynx eversible, with nine dorsal and nine ventral terminal papillae and two pairs of jaws.
The following species of this genus occur in the region:
Pholoe inornata
Pholoe pallida
Pholoe synophthalmica