Bathytasmania is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The only species, Bathytasmania insolita, is known from a single specimen collected at 4395m in the Tasman Sea south of Tasmania, Australia.[2]

Bathytasmania
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Bathytasmania
Levenstein, 1982
Type species
Bathytasmania insolita
Levenstein, 1982[1]

Description

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Bathytasmania has 19 segments and 10 pairs of elytra. A median antenna is present but lateral antennae are absent. Bidentate neurochaetae are absent and The first segment lacks chaetae. [2]

References

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  1. ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Bathytasmania Levenstein, 1982. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324923
  2. ^ a b Levenstein, R. Ya 1982. [New Genera of the Subfamily Macellicephalinae (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) from the Tasman Hollow]. Zoologicheskii zhurnal, 61(9): 1291–1296.