original description
Sikorski, Andrey; Gunton, Laetitia M.; Pavlova, Lyudmila. (2017). Laonice species (Polychaeta, Spionidae) from the Whittard Canyon (NE Atlantic) with descriptions of two new species. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 97(05): 961-973., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315417000480
page(s): 962 [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis From Sikorski et al. (2018: 962): "prostomium looks totally free from peristomium, capillaries arranged in more than two vertical rows in several anterior chaetigers, genital pouches generally present on very limited number of segments (or completely absent), hooks have more than two teeth in side view, and there is often a widening of the body on several anterior segments." [details]