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Taxonomy
Phyllamphicteis foliata (Haswell, 1883)
Nomenclature
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Subfamily: AmpharetinaeGenus: Phyllamphicteis
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Synonyms: 1
SUMMARY
Prostomium trilobed. Buccal tentacles smooth. Prostomial dorsal glandular ridges absent. Branchiae 4 pairs. Branchiae composed of 2 or more types, includes both smooth and lamellate pairs. 2 pairs smooth and 2 pairs lamellate. Paleae on segment 3 present, paleae in 2 bundles of 10 per side. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Neuropodia present. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 14. Abdominal notopodial rudiments 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:
Haswell, WA. 1883. On some new Australian tubicolous annelids. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7, 633-638.