Number of segments 39;
elytra 15 pairs. Dorsum brown;
prostomium purple, elytrophores brown; antennae and
cirri mottled brown and white and with brown band and white tips. Anterior margin of
prostomium with an acute anterior projection. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna).
Notochaetae about as thick as
neurochaetae. Bidentate neurochaetae absent.[3][4][5]
^Moore, John Percy. (1910). The polychaetous annelids dredged by the U.S.S. "Albatross" off the coast of Southern California in 1904: II. Polynoidae, Aphroditidae and Segaleonidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 62: 328-402, plates XXVIII-XXXIII., available online at
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^Fauchald, K.; Wilson, R.S. (2003). "Polynoidae (Polychaeta)-A DELTA database of genera, and Australian species". In R.S. Wilson; P.A. Hutchings; C. J. Glasby (eds.). Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.