Family of polychaetes
Lepidocoleidae is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Phyllodocida.[1]
Lepidocoleidaes have an armor-like exoskeleton that consists of large enclosed mineralized calcite plates with two different crystalline layers with both rugae and growth lines on their external surface.
Genera:[1]
References
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