Australaugeneria pottsi is a scale worm known from northern Australia from depths of 21m or less.[2][3]
| Australaugeneria pottsi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Australaugeneria |
| Species: | A. pottsi
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| Binomial name | |
| Australaugeneria pottsi Pettibone, 1969[1]
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Description
editNumber of segments 38; elytra 15 pairs. Depigmented. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). Notochaetae distinctly thicker than neurochaetae, or thinner than neurochaetae. Bidentate neurochaetae absent.[4]
Commensalism
editA. pottsi is commensal. Its host taxa are alcyonacean corals.
References
edit- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Australaugeneria pottsi Pettibone, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327025
- ^ Pettibone, Marian H. 1969. Australaugeneria pottsi, new name for Polynoe longicirrus Potts, from the Maldive Islands (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82: 519-524.
- ^ Potts, F.A. (1910). Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Part II. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series, Zoology. 13(2): 325-353, plates 18-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16399262
- ^ Fauchald, K.; Wilson, R.S. (2003). "Polynoidae (Polychaeta)-A DELTA database of genera, and Australian species". In R.S. Wilson; P.A. Hutchings; C. J. Glasby (eds.). Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.