Gattyana cirrhosa

Gattyana cirrhosa

Classification

Class: Polychaeta
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae

Gattyana is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus includes 11 species, 9 of which occur in the Northern Hemisphere, the remaining two are from the Indian Ocean off Mozambique and the Southern Ocean off New Zealand. Species of Gattyana are known from shallow water down to depths of about 1200 m.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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Gattyana cirrhosa

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