Genus Cabira Webster, 1879

Diagnosis. (after Glasby & Salazar-Vallejo 2021). Pilargids with body cylindrical, integument with few verrucae, larger and more numerous in anterior and posterior ends. Median antenna absent, lateral antennae papilliform. Palps unfused, biarticulated, palpostyle minute. Paired ventrolateral palpal papillae present. Pharynx lacking terminal papillae; proximally with soft papillae or hardened denticles arranged in rows. Two pairs of tentacular cirri, minute. Deep constriction between the first segment and the first chaetiger. Dorsal and ventral cirri papilliform; the latter from chaetigers 1 or 3. Notochaetae are hooks, from chaetigers 6 to 8. Neurochaetae are a variety of capillaries, limbate or nonlimbate, smooth or finely serrated.