original description
Uschakov, Pavel Vladimirovich 1977. Phylogenetic relationships in the family Polynoidae (Polychaeta), in D.J. Reish and K. Fauchald eds., Essays on Polychaetous Annelids in Memory of Dr. Olga Hartman: Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Allan Hancock Press, p. 29-38.
page(s): 34 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Uschakov (1977:34) wrote "Members of this bathypelagic subfamily have a prostomium of the lepidonotoid type, but on the cephalic end some peculiar addtional accessories appear as "antennal scales," "antennal sheath," and "tentacular sheath"; the parapodia are greatly extended, with long thin bristles, there are more than 50 segments and more than 20 pairs of elytra." [details]