Polychaetes distributed across oceans-examples of widely recorded species from abyssal depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Author Meissner, Karin Senckenberg Forschungsinstitute und Museum, Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung (DZMB), Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, D- 20146 Hamburg, Germany Author Schwentner, Martin Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria Author Göưing, Miriam Senckenberg Forschungsinstitute und Museum, Deutsches Zentrum für Marine Biodiversitätsforschung (DZMB), Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, D- 20146 Hamburg, Germany Author Fiege, Thomas Knebelsberger and Dieter text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2023 199 906 944 https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/bb4b3576-4caa-315f-aa71-9f8f63f60d66/ journal article 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad069 0024-4082 10470369 65B60DD3-64C9-4262-B7B2-74DA4D3D889F Genus Progoniada Hartman, 1965 Type species: Progoniada regularis Hartman, 1965 . Gender: female. Diagnosis: (See: Böggemann 2022.) Segments bi- or triannulate. Prostomium annulated, consisting of eight rings; tip with biarticulate appendages. Proboscis with a few different types of papillae; with macrognaths and dorsal and ventral micrognaths; chevrons present. First segment with only a pair of small lateral cirri and without parapodia or chaetae. All parapodia uniramous. Notochaetae absent; neurochaetae compound falcigers and/or spinigers in all parapodia.