Eclysippe Eliason, 1955

Prostomium anteriorly pointed, trilobed. Buccal tentacles smooth. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 3 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth, none basally flanged. Branchiae arranged in transverse line. Paleae on segment 3 present, long. Dorsal crest absent. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notopodia all similar. Notochaetae present from segment 3. Neuropodia present. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 12. Abdominal notopodial rudiments absent. Anal cirri absent.

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:
Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 28, 1-188.;
Holthe, T. 1986. Polychaeta Terebellomorpha from the northern Norwegian Sea and the Polar Sea, with descriptions of Mugga bathyalis sp.n. and Ymerana pteropoda gen. and sp.n. Sarsia 71, 227-234.