Acanthicolepis
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| Acanthicolepis | |
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| Acanthicolepis asperrima | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Acanthicolepis McIntosh, 1900 |
| Type species | |
| Polynoe asperrima M. Sars, 1861 | |
Acanthicolepis is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus was described in 1990[1] and includes two short-bodied species with up to 50 segments and which occur in the Mediterranean Sea and North-east Atlantic Ocean.[2]