Weddellia Hartman, 1967

Prostomium anteriorly truncated, trilobed. Buccal tentacles smooth, nearly as long as the branchiae. Oral membrane smooth and folded. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 3 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth, none basally flanged. All branchial pairs arranged in a distinctly segmental fashion. Paleae on segment 3 absent, segment 3 with capillary chaetae, but without paleal modifications. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notochaetae present from segment 3. Neuropodia present. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 15. Abdominal notopodial rudiments present. 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:
Hartman, O. 1967. Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antarctic Seas. Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology 2, 1-387,51pl.;
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.