Discorhabdella Dendy, 1924

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Genus Discorhabdella Dendy, 1924

Discorhabdella are Crambeidae with a hymedesmioid skeleton, tylostyles, subtylostyles and unguiferate anchorate isochelas but lacking desmas found in the other genera of the family (Van Soest 2002 [2004]c). There are nine described species worldwide (de Voogd, et al. 2023) located in the Northwest, Northeast and Southwest Pacific, Caribbean and Mediterranean discontinuously from 55 to 736 m depth.All but four species (including Discorhabdella atypica n. sp.) have acanthostyles possessing subapical whorls of spines.