Austropolaria
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| Austropolaria | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Austropolaria Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| Austropolaria magnicirrata Neal, Barnich, Wiklund & Glover, 2012[1] | |
Austropolaria is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus includes a single species, Austropolaria magnicirrata, which is known only from the Amundsen Sea in the Southern Ocean, at depths of 1000 to 1500m.[2]