Adercodon Mackie, 1994

Prostomium anteriorly truncated, trilobed. Buccal tentacles papillose. Oral membrane smooth and folded. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 3 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth, none basally flanged. Only last pair of branchiae clearly associated with a specific segment. Paleae on segment 3 absent. Dorsal crest absent. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notopodia all similar. Notochaetae all smooth, present from segment 4. Neuropodia present, tori of similar length throughout thorax. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 10. Abdominal notopodial rudiments present. Anal cirri present.

Description generated from: Hutchings, PA & Johnson, RT, 2003. Australian Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) DELTA database. In Wilson RS, Hutchings PA & Glasby CJ (eds) Polychaetes: Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Additional references:
Mackie, ASY. 1994. Adercodon pleijeli gen. and sp. nov. (Polychaeta, Ampharetidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Mèmoires du Musèum National d'Histoire Naturelle 162, 243-250.