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Poeobiidae
Natural History
Poeobiids are pelagic polychaetes with a sac-like gelatinous body. They lack external segmentation or chaetae and the head bears a
circlet of eversible branchiae.
Diversity
Only one species of Poeobiidae has been described: Poeobius meseres which is known from off the coast of California, the tropical East Pacific to the Gulf of Alaska and the Subarctic. There are no records from Australia, although this may only reflect the lack of collecting and taxonomic effort directed at pelagic polychaetes in Australian waters.
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