Chrysopetalidae is a family of polychaete worms. The body is short or elongated, with few or numerous segments. All segments bear on their dorsal side a fan or a transverse row of paleae. The cephalic lobe has tentacles and eyes and the buccal segment has two or four tentacular cirri on each side. The parapodia are uniramous or biramous, with dorsal cirri upon all segments. The ventral bristles are compound.
Genera The following genera are recognised:
Subfamily Calamyzinae Hartmann-Schröder, 1971
Boudemos Watson, Carvajal, Sergeeva, Pleijel & Rouse, 2016 Calamyzas Arwidsson, 1932 Craseoschema Ravara & Aguado in Ravara et al., 2019 Flascarpia Blake, 1993 Iheyomytilidicola Miura & Hashimoto, 1996 Laubierus Blake, 1993 Micospina Watson, Carvajal, Sergeeva, Pleijel & Rouse, 2016 Miura Blake, 1993 Mytilidiphila Miura & Hashimoto, 1993 Natsushima Miura & Laubier, 1990 Nautiliniella Miura & Laubier, 1990 Petrecca Blake, 1990 Santelma Blake, 1993 Shinkai Miura & Laubier, 1990 Spathochaeta Jimi, Moritaki & Kajihara, 2019 Thyasiridicola Miura & Hashimoto, 1996 Vesicomyicola Dreyer, Miura & Van Dover, 2004 Victoriella Kiseleva, 1996
Subfamily Chrysopetalinae Ehlers, 1864
Bhawania Schmarda, 1861 Chrysopetalum Ehlers, 1864 Hyalopale Perkins, 1985 Paleaequor Watson Russell, 1986 Paleanotus Schmarda, 1861 Pseudodysponetus Böggemann, 2009 Strepternos Watson Russell, 1991 Thrausmatos Watson, 2001 Treptopale Perkins, 1985
Subfamily Dysponetinae Aguado, Nygren & Rouse, 2013
Dysponetus Levinsen, 1879
No subfamily:
Acanthopale San Martín, 1986 Arichlidon Watson Russell, 1986
References
Darbyshire, T. & Brewin, P.E. 2015. Three new species of Dysponetus Levinsen, 1879 (Polychaeta: Chrysopetalidae) from the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean, with a re-description of Dysponetus bulbosus Hartmann-Schröder, 1982. Zootaxa, 4040 (3), pages 359–370, Watson, C. 2015. Seven new species of Paleanotus (Annelida: Chrysopetalidae) described from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, and coral reefs of northern Australia and the Indo-Pacific: two cryptic species pairs revealed between western Pacific Ocean and the eastern Indian Ocean. IN Hutchings, P.A. & Kupriyanova, E.K. (eds.), 2015: Coral reef-associated fauna of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef: polychaetes and allies. Zootaxa, 4019 (1), pages 707–732,
External links
Images of Chrysopetalidae at the Encyclopedia of Life