Chrysopetalum
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- monotypic taxon
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- taxon name
- Chrysopetalum
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- genus
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- Ehlers, 1864
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Chrysopetalum is a genus of polychaete worms.
==Genus description== Feet uniramose, furnished with only one tuft of setae. Headlobe with four or (?) two eyes, a tentacle, two antennae, and two palpi. The first segment of body provided with four cirri on each side; the succeeding segments with a cirrus on each side. Body nearly as broad as long. Branchiae placed on each segment, on each side of body, disposed in a fan-shaped row of flat setae or paleae. Paleae broad and rather short.
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