Melinnopsis McIntosh, 1885

Gunton, Laetitia M., Kupriyanova, Elena & Alvestad, Tom, 2020, Two New Deep-water Species of Ampharetidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the Eastern Australian Continental Margin, Records of the Australian Museum 72 (4), pp. 101-121 : 106

Melinnopsis McIntosh, 1885

Melinnopsis McIntosh, 1885 (including Amelinna Hartman, 1969 ; Melinnexis Annenkova, 1931 ; and Melinnides Wesenberg-Lund, 1950 ) sensu Reuscher et al., 2015.

Type species. Melinnopsis atlantica McIntosh, 1885 ( type lodged at the Natural History Museum in London U.K., catalogue number 1885.12.1.330) .

Generic diagnosis. Large buccal tentacles occurring along with smaller ones. Four pairs of branchiae. Post branchial hooks absent. Brittle acicular neurochaetae in segments II–IV or II–V. Twelve to 14 thoracic uncinigers. Uncini with subrostral process.

Remarks. Our species fit the generic diagnosis of Reuscher et al. (2015) well, one long buccal tentacle, four pairs of branchiae, acicular chaetae on segments II–V, 12 thoracic uncinigers, uncini with subrostral process and absence of post branchial hooks (dorsal hooks).