Typhloscolex Busch, 1851

KOLBASOVA, G. D., SYOMIN, V. L., SEMPERE-VALVERDE, J., TEIXEIRA, M. A. L. & CARVALHO, S., 2025, Holopelagic Annelida from the Red Sea off the Central Saudi Arabian coast, Zootaxa 5632 (1), pp. 1-41 : 19

Typhloscolex Busch, 1851

Type species: Typhloscolex muelleri Busch, 1851

Diagnosis. Body short, fusiform. Lamellar parapodial cirri cover all the body from lateral sides. Head (prostomium) mushroom-shaped, round, encircled with ventral and dorsal belts of long cilia. Palpodium terminal. Nuchal organs as two rounded dorso-lateral lappets beside dorsal ciliary belt. Head and two first (neck) segments with only one pair of cirri each; following segments (chaetigers) of body trunk with dorsal and ventral cirri. Parapodia uniramous, small, conical, with two short thick chaetae and stout medial protruding aciculum. Pygidium with two flattened caudal cirri.