''Subadyte campechensis'' is a
scale worm known from a single specimen collected in the
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United S ...
at a depth of 640 m.
[Barnich, Ruth; Beuck, Lydia; Freiwald, André. (2013). Scale worms (Polychaeta: Aphroditiformia) associated with cold-water corals in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 93(8): 2129–2143., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531541300088X.]
Description
The single specimen is fragmentary making the total number of segments unknown, but is presumably short-bodied with 15 pairs of
elytra
An elytron (; ; , ) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs ( Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes altern ...
. The species is rather transparent, except for some brownish pigment on ceratophores of antennae, yellow and brownish pigmentation on dorsum and dark pharynx. The lateral antennae are positioned ventrally on
prostomium
The prostomium (From Ancient Greek, meaning "before the mouth"; plural: prostomia; sometimes also called the "acron") is the cephalized first body segment in an annelid worm's body at the anterior end. It is in front of (but does not include) th ...
, directly beneath median antenna ceratophore. The
notochaetae are distinctly thicker than the
neurochaetae, which also possess bidentate tips.
References
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Phyllodocida