Bruunilla natalensis is a deep-sea scale worm that is known from a single specimen collected from the Mozambique Basin in the Indian Ocean from a depth of about 5000 m.[2][3]
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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: | Bruunilla |
| Species: | B. natalensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Bruunilla natalensis Hartman, 1971 [1]
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Description
editBruunilla natalensis is a short-bodied worm with up to about 18 segments and 8 pairs of elytra. It is grey without patterns and lacks lateral antennae.[3]
References
edit- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Bruunilla natalensis Hartman, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327312
- ^ Hartman, Olga. (1971). Abyssal polychaetous annelids from the Mozambique Basin off southeast Africa, with a compendium of abyssal polychaetous annelids from world-wide areas. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. 28(10): 1407-1428., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f71-219
- ^ a b Pettibone, M. H. (1979). Redescription of Bruunilla natalensis Hartman (Polychaeta: Polynoidae), originally referred to Fauveliopsidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 92(2): 384-388., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35514095#page/408/mode/1up
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