Melinantipoda Hartman, 1967

Buccal tentacles smooth. Oral membrane elongate, smooth and folded. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 4 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth, none basally flanged. Paleae on segment 3 absent. Dorsal crest present, on segment 4. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notopodia all similar. Notochaetae all smooth, present from segment 5. Neuropodia present, first torus shorter than subsequent thoracic tori. Segments 3–6 with fine acicular neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 16.

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.