Clymenella Verrill 1873

The prostomium has a cephalic plate with a leathery rim, as seen here. Dorsal is to the right and ventral is left in this photo.

This closeup of the prostomium (bottom) and pygidium (center) of a coiled individual shows the partly-extended anal funnel on the pygidium, plus the setae on setigers 1 and 2 are partly visible. The notopodia are long capillary setae and the neuropodia are uncini.

This closeup of the setae on one of the segments shows the typical arrangement--long capillary notosetae (right) and a row of short uncini for neurosetae (left). Anterior is down in this photo.

This closeup of setiger 4 shows the notosetae and neurosetae, plus the then menbranous sheath that extends anteriorly around the posterior end of setiger 3 (bottom of photo).

Several of the longest segments appeared to have many eggs in the coelomic space.

Clymenella torquata (tentative), about 9 cm long, from 107 m depth in the San Juan Channel. The slanted head is at top right, and the orange funnel on the pygidium is partly extended. (Photo by: Dave Cowles, July 2014)