Benhamipolynoe

Benhamipolynoe
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Subclass:	Errantia
Order:	Phyllodocida
Family:	Polynoidae
Genus:	Benhamipolynoe; Pettibone, 1970
Type species
	Lepidasthenia antipathicola; Benham, 1927

Benhamipolynoe is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus is known from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and includes 2 species.^[1]

Description

Species of Benhamipolynoe are long-bodied scale worms comprising 50–200 or more segments and 10–50 or more pairs of elytra; the elytra are large but leave the middle part of the body uncovered. The lateral antennae are inserted terminally on the anterior margin of the prostomium. The neurochaetae are smooth or almost so, lacking prominent ornamentation; bidentate neurochaetae are absent.^[2]

Biology and ecology

Both species of Benhamipolynoe currently known are commensal with corals.^[3]

Species

Two species of Benhamipolynoe are known as of August 2020:^[1]

Benhamipolynoe antipathicola (Benham 1927)
Benhamipolynoe cairnsi Pettibone 1989

References

^ ^a ^b Read, Geoffrey B.; Fauchald, Kristian (2020). "The World Polychaeta Database".
^ Pettibone, Marian H. 1970. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part IV. Some additional polychaetes of the Polynoidae, Hesionidae, Nereidae, Goniadidae, Eunicidae, and Onuphidae, selected as new species by the late Dr. Hermann Augener with remarks on other related species, in M. Weber, L.F. Beaufort and J.H. Stock eds., Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899–1900: Leiden, E.J. Brill, p. 199–270.
^ Hanley, J. R.; Burke, M. (1991). Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Islands and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. in: Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 8. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 151: 9-82.

[read-1] Read, Geoffrey B.; Fauchald, Kristian (2020). "The World Polychaeta Database".

[pettibone1970-2] Pettibone, Marian H. 1970. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part IV. Some additional polychaetes of the Polynoidae, Hesionidae, Nereidae, Goniadidae, Eunicidae, and Onuphidae, selected as new species by the late Dr. Hermann Augener with remarks on other related species, in M. Weber, L.F. Beaufort and J.H. Stock eds., Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899–1900: Leiden, E.J. Brill, p. 199–270.

[hanley1991-3] Hanley, J. R.; Burke, M. (1991). Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Islands and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. in: Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 8. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 151: 9-82.

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