Diagnosis
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Amended generic diagnosis (Sato & Nakashima, 2003): Eversible proboscis with conical paragnaths on both maxillary and oral rings. Four pairs of tentacular cirri; parapodia biramous except for the first 2 chaetigers. Notochaetae homogomph spinigers. Neurochaetae homogomph spinigers with or without heterogomph spinigers, and heterogomph falcigers with or without homogomph falcigers. One or a few thick simple chaetae present in the supra-acicular fascicle in posterior neuropodia.
Sato, Masanori; Nakashima, Akiyuki. (2003). A review of Asian Hediste species complex (Nereididae, Polychaeta) with descriptions of two new species and a redescription of Hediste japonica (Izuka, 1908). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 137(3): 403-445.
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