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Taxonomy
Jugamphicteis Fauchald & Hancock, 1981
Nomenclature
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Family: AmpharetidaeSubfamily: Ampharetinae
SUMMARY
Prostomium anteriorly truncated, trilobed. Buccal tentacles smooth. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 4 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth, none basally flanged. Only last pair of branchiae clearly associated with a specific segment. Paleae on segment 3 present, long. Dorsal crest absent. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notopodia all similar. Notochaetae all smooth, present from segment 3. Neuropodia present. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 14. Abdominal notopodial rudiments present. Anal cirri present, 1 pair.
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:
Caullery, M. 1944. Polychétes sedentaire de l'Expedition du Siboga: Ariciidae, Spionidae, Chaetopteridae, Chloraemidae, Opheliidae, Oweniidae, Sabellariidae, Sternaspidae, Amphictenidae, Ampharetidae,Terebellidae. Siboga-Expeditie, Leiden 24, 1-204,157figures.;
Fauchald, K. & Hancock, D.R. 1981. Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon. Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology 11 (): 1-73;
Holthe, T. 2000. Bathyal and abyssal Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) (Sedentary species II). Galathea Report 18, 57-68.