Bruunilla nealae | |
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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. nealae
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Binomial name | |
Bruunilla nealae Bonifácio & Menot, 2018
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Bruunilla nealae is a deep-sea scale worm that is known from a single specimen collected from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone in the Pacific Ocean from a depth of about 5000 m. [2]
Bruunilla nealae is a short-bodied worm with up to about 18 segments and 8 pairs of elytra. It is pale white and slightly translucent in life, but a pale yellow when preserved in ethanol. The species lacks lateral antennae and the notochaetae are thinner than the neurochaetae. [2]