Saphobranchia Chamberlin, 1919

Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2020, Four new deep-water flabelligerid species from Pacific Costa Rica (Annelida Sedentaria, Flabelligeridae), Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 560-578 : 566

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4329958
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scientific name	Saphobranchia Chamberlin, 1919
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Saphobranchia Chamberlin, 1919 View in CoL reinstated

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Saphobranchia Chamberlin, 1919: 387 View in CoL (key, etymology, type species).

Diplocirrus: Salazar-Vallejo & Buzhinskaja, 2011 View in CoL (partim).

Type species. Stylarioides longisetosus von Marenzeller, 1890 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Flabelligerids with body anteriorly swollen, tapered posteriorly. Cephalic cage made by chaetigers 1–2 (rarely only chaetiger 1), with more than four chaetae per bundle. Integument thin with long papillae, each with mud particles. Branchial plate with eight branchial filaments of one type, cirriform. Parapodia sometimes laterally projected. Notochaetae and neurochaetae abundant, usually as long as body width, or longer. Neurochaetae basally anchylosed, medially and distally multiarticulate.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Annelida
Class	Polychaeta
Order	Terebellida
Family	Flabelligeridae