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Australonoe is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus includes a single species which is known only from the south-east Indian Ocean at Rottnest Island, Australia.

Description
Body short, 39 segments, 16 pairs of elytra. Anterior margin of prostomium with a pair of acute anterior peaks. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). Palps, antennae, dorsal and ventral cirri with papillae. Notochaetae about as thick as neurochaetae. Unidentate and bidentate neurochaetae present.

Species
A single species of Australonoe is known as of June 2020 :


 * Australonoe willani Hanley, 1993