Loandalia Monro

Marks, Shona & Hocknull, Scott, 2006, New species of Loandalia (Polychaeta: Pilargidae) from Queensland, Australia, Zootaxa 1119, pp. 59-68 : 61

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.