Department of Zoology at ANDC/Zoology Museum/Museum specimens/Annelida/Aphrodite

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Common Name: Sea mouse

Distribution: found in U.S.A.

Habit and Habitat: marine and burrowing form.

Identifying features:-


 * Body-short and broad.


 * Body shape - oval,dorso-ventrally flattened.


 * Length - 7.5 to 12.5 cm with 30-35 segments.


 * Ventral surface- It is flat and segmented, consists of stiff setae and forms the creeping sole of the body.


 * Dorsal surface- It contains soft notopodial long setae (irridescent, modified) orming a felt like covering on the surface. Dorsal cirri are modified into plate like structure called Elytra( 15 pair)..


 * Head- situated anteriorly having a median tentacle and a pair of lateral palps.
 * There are greatly modified parapodia in Aphrodite.
 * There are three types of setae present in notopodia. The organism is identified on the basis of these setae:-


 * 1) Soft setae-These setae forms the creeping sole of ventral surface.
 * 2) stiff setae-These soft notopodial setae are modified into the felt like covering of dorsal surface.
 * 3) iridescent setae.


 * Anus-It is situated posteriorly on the dorsal surface.