Chloeia fusca

Chloeia fusca

Classification

Class: Polychaeta
Order: Amphinomida
Family: Amphinomidae

Chloeia is a genus of marine polychaete worms. Members of this genus are morphologically characterized by an elliptical body composed of certain number of segments, depending on the species, with external gills situated on both lateral sides of the back, each segment has a pair of them. Their number and repartition also depends on the species.

Distribution

Chloeia fusca — (c) Georgina Jones, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 7France · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Georgina Jones, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA DescriptionChloeia, Wikipedia contributors

Chloeia fusca

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