Polyeunoa maculata
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Polyeunoa maculata is a scale worm which is only known from Ratnagiri, IndiaDay JH (1973) Polychaeta collected by U.D. Gaikwad at Ratnagiri, south of Bombay. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 52: 337–361. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096–3642.1973.tb01888.x
Description
Polyeunoa maculata has 53 segments, with 24 pairs of elytra. The dorsum is covered with three broken dark bands per segment, with a dark streak on top of the cirrophores, the base of which are pink. The lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). The notochaetae are thinner than the neurochaetae, with bidentate neurochaetae absent.{{Cite book| publisher = CSIRO Publishing|editor= R.S. Wilson |editor2=P.A. Hutchings |editor3=C. J. Glasby | last1 = Fauchald| first1 = K.| last2 = Wilson| first2 = R.S.| title = Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide| chapter = Polynoidae (Polychaeta)-A DELTA database of genera, and Australian species| location = Melbourne| date = 2003}}
Biology and ecology
Polyeunoa maculata is commensal with another species of marine annelid, Mesochaetopterus japonicus; it was first found inside the tube constructed by M. japonicus.