''Subadyte mjoebergi'' is a scale worm known from a single specimen collected in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by ...

off the coast of north-western Australia at a depth of 22 m.Augener, H. 1922. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 33. Polychaeten. Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar, 63(6): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41849960Pettibone, Marian H. 1969. Review of some species referred to Scalisetosus McIntosh (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82: 1-30., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3412

Description

''Subadyte mjoebergi'' is a short-bodied worm with about 41 segments and 16 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

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 ...

bears a pair of anterior projections on the anterior margin and the lateral antennae are positioned ventrally on it, directly beneath median antenna ceratophore. The notochaetae are about as thick as the neurochaetae, which also possess bidentate tips.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1985536 Phyllodocida