McIntosh, 1900

Description:
Body of this scale-worm is long and thin. Dorsal and ventral surfaces are smooth.
Prostomium bilobed, with a small prostomial peak on each lobe, a median antenna, a pair of lateral antennae and a pair of palps. Two pairs of eyes, the anterior pair on the line of greatest width and the posterior pair in front of the rear margin. First segment with an acicular lobe and a pair of dorsal and ventral tentacular cirri. Scales do not overlap and leave the posterior region uncovered. They are very small, round with a few scattered papillae on the margins and surfaces. Notopodia are small mounds with a ventral acicular ligule and few chaetae. Notopodial chaetae capillaries, absent on some segments. Neuropodia well developed with a rounded anterior and bilobed posterior lobe and numerous chaetae. Neuropodial chaetae of 2 kinds: 1) with rows of spines and fine tips; 2) with rows of spines and bidentate tips present on anterior chaetigers only (E. elisabethae-detail).

Size:
Up to 52 mm for 89 chaetigers.

Colour:
Unknown.

Habitat:
Sublittoral.

Distribution:
East Scotland and the Netherlands.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Annelida
Class Polychaeta
Order Phyllodocida
Superfamily Aphroditoidea
Family Polynoidae
Genus Enipo
Species Enipo elisabethae

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Enipo elisabethae McIntosh, 1900

Scientific synonyms and common names

Enipo Elisabethae McIntosh, 1900
Enipo Kinbergi McIntosh, 1900
Polynoe Kinbergi Fauvel, 1923

Chambers, S.J. & A.I. Muir, 1997. Polychaetes: British Chrysopetaloidea, Pisionidea and Aphroditoidea. Synopses of the British Fauna (NS), 54: 1-202.

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