Chrysopetalum

Chrysopetalum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Class:	Polychaeta
Subclass:	Aciculata
Order:	Phyllodocida
Superfamily:	Chrysopetalacea
Family:	Chrysopetalidae
Genus:	Chrysopetalum; Ehlers, 1864
Species
	several, including Chrysopetalum ehlersi; Chrysopetalum occidentale;

Chrysopetalum is a genus of polychaete worms.

Genus description

Feet uniramose, furnished with only one tuft of setae. Headlobe with four or (?) two eyes, a tentacle, two antennae, and two palpi. The first segment of body provided with four cirri on each side ; the succeeding segments with a cirrus on each side. Body nearly as broad as long. Branchiae placed on each seg- ment, on each side of body, disposed in a fan-shaped row of flat setae or paleae. Paleae broad and rather short. [1]

Chrysopetalum elegans is a synonym for Bhawania goodei.

References

Baird, W. 1870, Contributions towards a Monograph of the Species of Annelides belonging to the Amphinomacea, with a List of the known Species, and a Description of several new Species (belonging to the group) contained in the National Collection of the British Museum. To which is appended a short account of two hitherto nondescript annulose animals of a larval character. Journal of the Linnean Society of Zoology of London 10:215-250.

External links

"Chrysopetalum" at the Encyclopedia of Life

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[1] Baird, W. 1870, Contributions towards a Monograph of the Species of Annelides belonging to the Amphinomacea, with a List of the known Species, and a Description of several new Species (belonging to the group) contained in the National Collection of the British Museum. To which is appended a short account of two hitherto nondescript annulose animals of a larval character. Journal of the Linnean Society of Zoology of London 10:215-250.