Bathyeliasona nigra is a deep-sea scale worm which occurs widely in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans from a depth range of about 2,500-5,000m.[2]
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| Bathyeliasona nigra specimen in dorsal view from Museums Victoria. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Bathyeliasona |
| Species: | B. nigra
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathyeliasona nigra (Hartman, 1967)[1]
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Description
editBathyeliasona nigra has 18 segments and 8 pairs of elytra, with slaty-black pigmentation. The anterior margin of the prostomium comprises a pair of acute anterior projections and the lateral antennae are absent. The notochaetae are about as thick as the neurochaetae and bidentate neurochaetae are absent.[2]
References
edit- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Bathyeliasona nigra (Hartman, 1967). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=428592
- ^ a b Pettibone MH (1976) Revision of the genus Macellicephala McIntosh and the subfamily Macellicephalinae Hartmann-Schröder (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 229: 1–71. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.229.
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