Bathychloeia sibogae Horst, 1910

Body short, ovate, approx 8 mm in length. 17-18 chaetigers bearing long (3-44 mm) furcate chaetae. Body pale colour, pair of purple spots dorsal on chaetiger 6, visible under skin. Dark blue-black colouration visible under skin on chaetigers 10-13, dorsal and ventral. Caruncle lobed, extending to chaetiger 3. Gills branched, only found on chaetiger 5. Parapodia short, but Neuro-and notochaetae well separated – Neurochaetae lateral, Notochaetae dorsal (see remaining tuft on chaetiger 7). Parapodial cirri on all(?) chaetigers, longer on final 5 chaetigers (may be due to these cirri surviving better). Chaetae long, bifurcate. No serrations or harpoon chaetae. Neurochaetae shorter then Notochaetae. Faint membrane/covering visible over the furcate tips of some chaetae. Pygidium with thick anal cirrus, may be part of a pair.

[see Böggemann, M. (2009). Polychaetes (Annelida) of the abyssal SE Atlantic. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 9, 251–428]

[previously Chloeia sp. MoV 6854]