Chloeia Rupestris

''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.Rômulo Barrosoa & Paulo Cesar Paivaa, A new deep-sea species of Chloeia (Polychaeta: Amphinomidae) from southern Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2011
Lateral sides of the body are cover with fin, sharp and venomous whitish calcareous bristles or setae.
Adults of this genus are often colorful especially on the dorsum.

The locomotion is done by parapodia, every segment possesses a pair in bilateral position, from which are activated "paddles", one dorsally called notopodia and another one ventrally called neropodia.

Chloeia's distribution is circumtropical. Most of the known species are found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean so only few species lives in the Atlantic Ocean.

List of species

There are 28 species in the genus ''Chloeia'':
* ''Chloeia amphora'' Horst, 1910
* '' Chloeia australis'' Kudenov, 1993
* ''Chloeia bengalensis'' Kinberg, 1867
* ''Chloeia bistriata'' Grube, 1868
* ''Chloeia candida'' Kinberg, 1857
* ''Chloeia conspicua'' Horst, 1910
* ''Chloeia egena'' Grube, 1855
* '' Chloeia entypa'' Chamberlin, 1919
* ''Chloeia flava'' (Pallas, 1766)
* ''Chloeia furcigera'' Quatrefages, 1866
* ''Chloeia fusca'' McIntosh, 1885
* ''Chloeia inermis'' Quatrefages, 1866
* ''Chloeia kudenovi'' Barroso & Paiva, 2011
* ''Chloeia macleayi'' Haswell, 1878
* ''Chloeia maculata'' Potts, 1909
* ''Chloeia malaica'' Kinberg, 1867
* ''Chloeia nuda'' Quatrefages, 1866
* ''Chloeia parva'' Baird, 1868
* ''Chloeia pinnata'' Moore, 1911
* '' Chloeia pseudeuglochis'' Augener, 1922
* '' Chloeia quatrefagesii'' Baird, 1868
* '' Chloeia rosea'' Potts, 1909
* '' Chloeia rupestris'' Risso, 1826
* '' Chloeia tumida'' Baird, 1868
* ''Chloeia venusta'' Quatrefages, 1866
* ''Chloeia violacea'' Horst, 1910
* '' Chloeia viridis'' Schmarda, 1861
* '' Chloeia bimaculata''

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Polychaete genera
Errantia

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