Arctonoe

Arctonoe
Arctonoe pulchra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Arctonoe
Chamberlin, 1920
Type species
Arctonoe lia
Chamberlin, 1920

Arctonoe is a genus of worms in the family Polynoidae. They are commonly known as "scale worms". Members of this genus predominantly occur in shallow (50 metres or less) waters of the north-eastern Pacific Ocean and often live as commensals of other marine invertebrates, frequently echinoderms but sometimes molluscs or other polychaetes.[1]

  1. ^ Hanley, J. R. (1989). "Revision of the scaleworm genera Arctonoe Chamberlin and Gastrolepidia Schmarda (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) with the erection of a new subfamily Arctonoinae". The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 6: 1–34.