''Flabelligera'' is a genus of

polychaete Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae, which are made ...

s in the family

Flabelligeridae Flabelligeridae is a family of polychaete worms, known as bristle-cage worms, notable for their cephalic cage: long slender chaetae forming a fan-like arrangement surrounding the eversible (able to be turned inside-out) head. Unlike many polychae ...

. Species are common around the world, in both temperate and cold waters. ''Flabelligera'' species have long, club-like papillae, which are encased in a smooth mucus sheath. They also have a distinct cephalic cage (a fan-like arrangement of

chaeta 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 ...

e around the head), and hooked neurochaeatae (ventral chaetae) which they use to hold onto rocks. Flabelligera species are preyed on by a number of fish. They are most often found in waters with a temperature between 6.3 and 12.9 °C.

Species list

* '' Flabelligera affinis,'' the flabby bristle-worm Sars, 1829 * '' Flabelligera bicolor'' (Schmarda, 1824) * '' Flabelligera biscayensis'' Kolmer, 1985 * '' Flabelligera bophortica'' Annenkova-Chlopina, 1924 * '' Flabelligera diplochaetus'' (Otto, 1820) * '' Flabelligera gourdoni'' Gravier, 1906 * '' Flabelligera grubei'' (Webster & Benedict, 1887) * '' Flabelligera haswelli'' Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 * '' Flabelligera infundabularis,'' the sheathed bristle-cage worm Johnson, 1901 * '' Flabelligera japonica'' Jimi, Hasegawa, Taru, Oya, Kohtsuka, Tsuchida, Fujiwara & Woo, 2022 * '' Flabelligera kaimeiae'' Jimi, Hasegawa, Taru, Oya, Kohtsuka, Tsuchida, Fujiwara & Woo, 2022 * '' Flabelligera kajiharai'' Jimi, Hasegawa, Taru, Oya, Kohtsuka, Tsuchida, Fujiwara & Woo, 2022 * '' Flabelligera kozaensis'' Jimi, Hasegawa, Taru, Oya, Kohtsuka, Tsuchida, Fujiwara & Woo, 2022 * '' Flabelligera luctator'' (Stimpson, 1855) * '' Flabelligera multipapillata'' Hartmann-Schröder, 1965 * '' Flabelligera nuniezi'' Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 * '' Flabelligera orensanzi'' Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 * '' Flabelligera pennigera'' Ehlers, 1908 * '' Flabelligera pergamentacea'' Ehlers, 1913 * '' Flabelligera picta'' Ehlers, 1913 * '' Flabelligera salazarae'' Salazar-Vallejo, 2012 * '' Flabelligera sekii'' Jimi, Hasegawa, Taru, Oya, Kohtsuka, Tsuchida, Fujiwara & Woo, 2022 * '' Flabelligera vaginifera'' (Rathke, 1843)

References

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