Subadyte

{{Short description|Genus of annelid worms}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Subadyte | authority = Pettibone, 1969 | type_species = ''Polynoe pellucida'' Ehlers, 1864, accepted as ''Subadyte pellucida'' (Ehlers, 1864)<ref name = "worms">Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Subadyte Pettibone, 1969. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129509</ref> }}

'''''Subadyte''''' is a genus of marine polychaete worms belonging to the family Polynoidae, the scaleworms. Eight species of ''Subadyte'' are recognised and the genus is known to occur widely in the world's oceans from the intertidal zone to depths of about 1200 m.<ref name="petti">Pettibone, Marian H. 1969. Review of some species referred to Scalisetosus McIntosh (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82: 1–30., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3412</ref><ref name="barn">{{Cite web|last=Barnich|first=Ruth|last2=Fiege|first2=Dieter|date=2003-07-07|title=The Aphroditoidea (Annelida: Polychaeta) of the - Mediterranean Sea|url=https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510613533/The-Aphroditoidea-Annelida-Polychaeta-of-the-Mediterranean-Sea|access-date=2021-07-24|website=www.schweizerbart.de|language=en}}</ref><ref>Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. (1991) Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Island and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 8. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie 151, 9–82. </ref>

==Description== ''Subadyte'' are short-bodied worms with around 35–41 segments and 15–16 pairs of elytra. The lateral antennae are positioned ventrally on the prostomium, directly beneath the median antenna and the neurochaetae bear bidentate tips.<ref name ="petti"/><ref name ="barn" />

==Species== As at October 2020 ''Subadyte'' contains eight species:<ref name = "worms />

*''Subadyte albanyensis'' Hanley & Burke, 1990 *''Subadyte campechensis'' Barnich, Beuck & Freiwald, 2013 *''Subadyte chesterfieldensis'' Hanley & Burke, 1991 *''Subadyte mexicana'' Fauchald, 1972 *''Subadyte micropapillata'' Barnich, Sun & Fiege, 2004 *''Subadyte mjoebergi'' (Augener, 1922) *''Subadyte papillifera'' (Horst, 1915) *''Subadyte pellucida'' (Ehlers, 1864)

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Phyllodocida