# Chloeia

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***Chloeia*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [marine](/source/Marine_worm) [polychaete](/source/Polychaete) worms.

Members of this [genus](/source/Genus) are morphologically characterized by an elliptical body composed of certain number of [segments](/source/Segmented_worm), depending on the [species](/source/Species), with external gills situated on both lateral sides of the back, each segment has a pair of them. Their number and repartition also depends on the [species](/source/Species).[1] Lateral sides of the body are cover with fin, sharp and venomous whitish calcareous bristles or [setae](/source/Setae). Adults of this genus are often colorful especially on the dorsum.

The [locomotion](/source/Animal_locomotion) is done by [parapodia](/source/Parapodia), every segment possesses a pair in bilateral position, from which are activated "paddles", one dorsally called [notopodia](/source/Notopodia) and another one ventrally called neuropodia.

Chloeia's distribution is circumtropical. Most of the known [species](/source/Species) are found in the [Indian](/source/Indian_Ocean) and [Pacific Ocean](/source/Pacific_Ocean) so only few species lives in the [Atlantic Ocean](/source/Atlantic_Ocean).[1]

## List of species

There are 28 species in the genus *Chloeia*:[2]

- *[Chloeia amphora](/source/Chloeia_amphora)* Horst, 1910
- *[Chloeia australis](/source/Chloeia_australis)* Kudenov, 1993
- *[Chloeia bengalensis](/source/Chloeia_bengalensis)* Kinberg, 1867
- *[Chloeia bistriata](/source/Chloeia_bistriata)* Grube, 1868
- *[Chloeia candida](/source/Chloeia_candida)* Kinberg, 1857
- *[Chloeia conspicua](/source/Chloeia_conspicua)* Horst, 1910
- *[Chloeia egena](/source/Chloeia_egena)* Grube, 1855
- *[Chloeia entypa](/source/Chloeia_entypa)* Chamberlin, 1919
- *[Chloeia flava](/source/Chloeia_flava)* (Pallas, 1766)
- *[Chloeia furcigera](/source/Chloeia_furcigera)* Quatrefages, 1866
- *[Chloeia fusca](/source/Chloeia_fusca)* McIntosh, 1885
- *[Chloeia inermis](/source/Chloeia_inermis)* Quatrefages, 1866
- *[Chloeia kudenovi](/source/Chloeia_kudenovi)* Barroso & Paiva, 2011
- *[Chloeia macleayi](/source/Chloeia_macleayi)* Haswell, 1878
- *[Chloeia maculata](/source/Chloeia_maculata)* Potts, 1909
- *[Chloeia malaica](/source/Chloeia_malaica)* Kinberg, 1867
- *[Chloeia nuda](/source/Chloeia_nuda)* Quatrefages, 1866
- *[Chloeia parva](/source/Chloeia_parva)* Baird, 1868
- *[Chloeia pinnata](/source/Chloeia_pinnata)* Moore, 1911
- *[Chloeia pseudeuglochis](/source/Chloeia_pseudeuglochis)* Augener, 1922
- *[Chloeia quatrefagesii](/source/Chloeia_quatrefagesii)* Baird, 1868
- *[Chloeia rosea](/source/Chloeia_rosea)* Potts, 1909
- *[Chloeia rupestris](/source/Chloeia_rupestris)* Risso, 1826
- *[Chloeia tumida](/source/Chloeia_tumida)* Baird, 1868
- *[Chloeia venusta](/source/Chloeia_venusta)* Quatrefages, 1866
- *[Chloeia violacea](/source/Chloeia_violacea)* Horst, 1910
- *[Chloeia viridis](/source/Chloeia_viridis)* Schmarda, 1861
- *[Chloeia bimaculata](/source/Chloeia_bimaculata)*

## References

1. Rômulo Barrosoa & Paulo Cesar Paivaa, A new deep-sea species of Chloeia (Polychaeta: Amphinomidae) from southern Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2011

1. ["WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Chloeia Lamarck, 1818"](http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129184)

## External links

- WoRMS (2014). ["*Chloeia* (Lamarck, 1818)"](http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129184). [World Register of Marine Species](/source/World_Register_of_Marine_Species)

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