Noanelia Desbruyères & Laubier, 1977

Prostomium anteriorly truncated. Buccal tentacles smooth, attached outside the mouth. Oral membrane tentaculate or crenulate. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 4 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth, none basally flanged. All branchial pairs arranged in a distinctly segmental fashion, branchiae unequal in size. 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 5. Neuropodia present, tori of similar length throughout thorax. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 12. 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:
Desbruyères, D and Laubier, L. 1977. Noanelia hartmanae gen. sp. n., Ampharetidae (Annélides Polychètes Sedentaires) abyssal du Golfe de Gascogne. In Reish, DJ and Fauchald, K (eds). Essays on Polychaetous Annelids in Memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. Allan Hancock Press, Los Angeles, pp. 279-287.
Schueller, M., & Jirkov, I. A. (2013). New Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) from the deep Southern Ocean and shallow Patagonian waters. Zootaxa, 3692(1), 204-237.