''Admetella'' is a genus of marine annelids in the family

Polynoidae Polynoidae is a family of marine Polychaete worms known as "scale worms" due to the scale-like elytra on the dorsal surface. Almost 900 species are currently recognised belonging to 9 subfamilies and 167 genera. They are active hunters, but gene ...

(scale worms). Species of ''Admetella'', although uncommonly collected are nevertheless known from widespread localities in the

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and Atlantic Oceans at depths of 400–6,000 m.

Description

Species of ''Admetella'' have a short triangular sheath-like appendage at the base of the lateral antennae and have 50 or more segments and 25 to 31 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 alterna ...

Notochaetae A chaeta or cheta (from Greek χαίτη “crest, mane, flowing hair"; plural: chaetae) is a chitinous bristle or seta found in annelid worms, (although the term is also frequently used to describe similar structures in other invertebrates such ...

and

neurochaetae A chaeta or cheta (from Greek χαίτη “crest, mane, flowing hair"; plural: chaetae) is a chitinous bristle or seta found in annelid worms, (although the term is also frequently used to describe similar structures in other invertebrates such ...

are long, slender and are distally flattened.

Species

Three valid species of ''Admetella'' are known as of July 2020: *'' Admetella brevis'' Levenstein, 1978 *'' Admetella hastigerens'' Chamberlin, 1919 *'' Admetella longipedata'' (McIntosh, 1885)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3921863 Phyllodocida Polychaete genera