Mesnil & Caullery, 1898
Description:
Body slender and cylindrical.
Prostomium rounded, diamond-shaped, without antennae.
Peristomium limited to lips. Two long grooved palps present, but often lost in preserved material.
First segment with neuropodia and interramal cirri. Other parapodia biramous with notopodia distally narrowed into dorsal cirri, supported by aciculae, an interramal cirrus and neuropodia with flanged postchaetal lobes similar to those in spionids (Apistobranchidae). Tentacular and ventral cirri absent. Chaetae all variously modified capillaries. Pygidium with multiple cirri.
After: Kirkegaard, 1996.
For identification to species level, jump to the Picture key: Page 146: Apistobranchidae
The following taxa of this family occur in the region:
Genus Apistobranchus
Apistobranchus tenuis
Apistobranchus tullbergi