Benhamipolynoe is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus is known from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and includes 2 species.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Benhamipolynoe Pettibone, 1970 |
| Type species | |
| Lepidasthenia antipathicola Benham, 1927
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Description edit
Species of Benhamipolynoe are long-bodied scale worms comprising 50–200 or more segments and 10–50 or more pairs of elytra; the elytra are large but leave the middle part of the body uncovered. The lateral antennae are inserted terminally on the anterior margin of the prostomium. The neurochaetae are smooth or almost so, lacking prominent ornamentation; bidentate neurochaetae are absent.[2]
Biology and ecology edit
Both species of Benhamipolynoe currently known are commensal with corals.[3]
Species edit
Two species of Benhamipolynoe are known as of August 2020:[1]
- Benhamipolynoe antipathicola (Benham 1927)
- Benhamipolynoe cairnsi Pettibone 1989
References edit
- ^ a b Read, Geoffrey B.; Fauchald, Kristian (2020). "The World Polychaeta Database".
- ^ Pettibone, Marian H. 1970. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part IV. Some additional polychaetes of the Polynoidae, Hesionidae, Nereidae, Goniadidae, Eunicidae, and Onuphidae, selected as new species by the late Dr. Hermann Augener with remarks on other related species, in M. Weber, L.F. Beaufort and J.H. Stock eds., Siboga-Expeditie Uitkomsten op Zoologisch, Bonatisch, Oceanographisch en Geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899–1900: Leiden, E.J. Brill, p. 199–270.
- ^ Hanley, J. R.; Burke, M. (1991). Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Islands and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. in: Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 8. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 151: 9-82.