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Lepidocoleidae
Family of polychaetes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lepidocoleidae is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Phyllodocida.[1]
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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]
- Carnicoleus Dzik, 1986
- Clarkeolepis Elias, 1958
- Compacoleus Schallreuter, 1985
- Kerrycoleus Prokop, 2002
- †Lepidocoleus Faber, 1886[2]
- Sokolophocoleus Pope, 1960
- Turrilepas Woodward, 1865
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