Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971

Capa, Maria, Osborn, Karen J. & Bakken, Torkild, 2016, Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) of the deep Northwestern Atlantic, including remarkable new species of Euritmia and Sphaerephesia, ZooKeys 615, pp. 1-32 : 19

Taxon classification Animalia Phyllodocida Sphaerodoridae

Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971

Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971: 69; Fauchald 1974: 69.

Type species.

Sphaerodorum sphaerulifer Moore, 1909.

Diagnosis.

Body generally short and ovoid, some forms slender. Four or more longitudinal rows of macrotubercles, in one or several transverse rows per segment. Macrotubercles sessile and smooth, without terminal papillae. Microtubercles absent. Papillae over body surface and parapodia. Prostomial and peristomial appendages short, spherical or digitiform. Parapodia with compound chaetae; hooks absent.