Species
Arctonoe vittata (Red-banded commensal scaleworm)
Arctonoe vittata. Photo: (c) Robin Gwen Agarwal, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Arctonoe vittata is a species of scaled polychaete worms commonly known as a “scale worm”. This species often lives as a commensal of another marine animal.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Annelida (Segmented worms)
- Class: Polychaeta (Polychaete worms)
- Subclass: Errantia (Active free-living bristleworms)
- Order: Phyllodocida
- Suborder: Aphroditiformia
- Family: Polynoidae (Scaleworms)
- Subfamily: Arctonoinae
- Genus: Arctonoe
- Species: Arctonoe vittata (Red-banded commensal scaleworm)
- Genus: Arctonoe
- Subfamily: Arctonoinae
- Family: Polynoidae (Scaleworms)
- Suborder: Aphroditiformia
- Order: Phyllodocida
- Subclass: Errantia (Active free-living bristleworms)
- Class: Polychaeta (Polychaete worms)
- Phylum: Annelida (Segmented worms)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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