Australaugeneria iberica | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Subclass: | Errantia |
Order: | Phyllodocida |
Family: | Polynoidae |
Genus: | Australaugeneria |
Species: | A. iberica
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Binomial name | |
Australaugeneria iberica Ravara & Cunha, 2016[1]
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Australaugeneria iberica is a scale worm known from the Gulf of Cadiz in the north-east Atlantic Ocean from a depth of 2230m.[2]
Australaugeneria iberica, known from a depth of 2230 m, is the only bathyal species in the genus; the remaining 3 species are known from depths of 30 m or less.
Elytra 15 pairs (presumably; all 3 type specimens incomplete). Unpigmented. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). Notochaetae thinner than neurochaetae.[3]
A. iberica is commensal. Its host taxa are alcyonacean corals such as Acanella or a similar genera.