Image of Paralvinella palmiformis Desbruyères & Laubier 1986

Description:

A view of the dorsal (gill) side of the head. The first chaetigerous segment (setiger), with a parapodium and notosetae projecting, can be seen near the bottom center. A small amount of debris has become attached to the tops of the notosetae. Note that the tuft of setae are on a well-defined (dorsal, notopodial) lobe of the parapodium and there is no corresponding ventral lobe (neuropodium) with neurosetae--this is one of the identifying characteristics on the first 20-31 setigers for this species.