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Melinnopsis

McIntosh, 1885

GBIF:114268436

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Descriptions(3)

Buccal tentacles smooth. Branchiae 4 pairs. All branchiae similar, all smooth. Paleae on segment 3 absent. Dorsal crest absent. Nuchal (post branchial) hooks on segment 4 absent. Notochaetae present from segment 5. Neuropodia present. Segments 3–6 with fine acicular neurochaetae. Number of pairs of thoracic uncinigers 10.

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.

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Distribution within Australia: Not known from Australia.

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Annelida

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Miller S, Rycroft S. Annelida. Scratchpads. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/httdhg accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-15.

GBIF Usage Key
114268436
Dataset Key
3c37ebc6-d3d8-496c-96e8-55a6088aaecb
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2325847
Taxon ID
b47eacf3-6cc3-4a95-8ddd-36e0d66cb619
Last Crawled
2/7/2026
Last Interpreted
2/7/2026