Genus Loandalia Monro

Type Species: Loandalia aberrans Monro, 1936 . Type number NHM 1936­2­8 ­3376. [Angola, Africa]

Generic composition:

L. americana Hartman (1947), [Gulf of Mexico]; L. bennei (Solís­Weiss 1983), [Mazatlan Bay, Mexico]; L. evelinae (León­González 1991), [Bahia of California]; L. fauveli Berkeley & Berkeley (1941), [Southern California]; L. fredrayorum sp. nov., [Moreton Bay, Australia]; L. gladstonensis sp. nov., [Gladstone Harbour, Australia]; L. gracilis Hartmann­Schröder (1959), [El Salvador]; L. indica Thomas (1963), [Arabian Sea]; L. maculata Intes & Le Loeuff (1975), [Ivory Coast]; L. ocularis Emerson & Fauchald (1971), [Santa Barbara, California]; L. riojai Salazar­Vallejo (1986), [Bahia of Manzanillo, Mexico]; L.salazarvallejoi León­González (1991), [Western Coast of Baja California, Mexico]; L. tricuspis Müller (1858), [Brazil]; L. vivianneae (Salazar­Vallejo & Reyes­Barragán 1990), [Eastern Mexico].

Diagnosis:

Body cylindrical. Prostomium wider then long and reduced; biarticulated palps reduced. Median and lateral antennae absent; peristomial cirri absent. Jaws absent. Emergent notopodia spine present, straight; capillary notochaetae present, beside spine; notoacicula absent. Dorsal cirri absent (except L. aberrans). Ventral cirri present.