Ampharana

Prostomium anteriorly truncated. Buccal tentacles smooth, arranged in two lateral groups. Oral membrane elongate, 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. Dorsal crest absent. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notopodia all similar. Notochaetae all smooth, present from segment 3. Neuropodia present, tori of similar length throughout thorax. Segments 3–6 without neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 11. 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:
Hartman, O. 1969. Atlas of the Sedentariate Polychaetous Annelids from California. 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.

Distribution within Australia: Not known from Australia.

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