Sigalionidae Malmgren, 1867
Overview of Sigalionidae collected from Falkland Islands as part of this study.
Median antenna |
Parapodial ctenidia |
Ventral ctenidia |
Neurochaetae |
Elytra |
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Neoleanira magellanica (originally as Sigalionidae sp.1) |
Present, with auricles |
Present (3 per parapodium) |
Present from mid body segments onwards; clavate |
Pseudocompound slender spinigers, with serrated edges |
See-through to milky in colour; margin smooth entire; surface smooth |
Laenira |
Present, without auricles |
Present (3 per parapodium) |
Absent |
Pseudocompound slender spinigers, with serrated edges |
See-through to milky in colour; margin smooth entire; surface smooth |
Sigalionidae sp. 2 |
Present, with auricles |
Absent? (not observed) |
Present from segment 13 |
Compound; blades flattened, with widely spaced serration on one side, the other side undulating; distally with blunt, rounded tips |
Missing |