Global InformationDisconatis information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Disconatis Hanley & Burke, 1988 |
| Type species | |
| Disconatis contubernalis Hanley & Burke, 1988[1]
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Disconatis is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus includes two species which are both commensal with other kinds of marine Annelida and occur in Australia and New Zealand.[2]
- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Disconatis Hanley & Burke, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324940 on 2020-09-11
- ^ Source reference(s) for description: Hanley, J. Russell and Burke, Melanie 1988. A new genus and species of commensal scaleworm (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, 5(1): 5–15.