Annelids of the eastern Australian abyss collected by the 2017 RV ' Investigator' voyage Author Gunton, Laetitia M. Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia laetitia.gunton@austmus.gov.au Author Kupriyanova, Elena K. Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia & Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Author Alvestad, Tom Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Author Avery, Lynda Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Author Blake, James A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8217-9769 Aquatic Research & Consulting, Duxbury, Massachusetts, USA Author Biriukova, Olga Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia Author Boeggemann, Markus University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany Author Borisova, Polina P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Author Budaeva, Nataliya Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway & P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Author Burghardt, Ingo Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia Author Capa, Maria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5063-7961 Department of Biology, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain Author Georgieva, Magdalena N. Natural History Museum, London, UK Author Glasby, Christopher J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9464-1938 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia Author Hsueh, Pan-Wen Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, China Author Hutchings, Pat Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia & Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Author Jimi, Naoto https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8586-3320 National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan Author Kongsrud, Jon A. Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Author Langeneck, Joachim https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3665-8683 Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Author Meissner, Karin Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, DZMB, Hamburg, Germany Author Murray, Anna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-1286 Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia Author Nikolic, Mark Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Author Paxton, Hannelore https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7086-5219 Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia & Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Author Ramos, Dino https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-5383 Natural History Museum, London, UK Author Schulze, Anja Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA Author Sobczyk, Robert Department of Zoology of Invertebrates and Hydrobiology, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland Author Watson, Charlotte Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, Australia Author Wiklund, Helena Natural History Museum, London, UK & Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre and University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Author Wilson, Robin S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9441-2131 Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Author Zhadan, Anna Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Author Zhang, Jinghuai South China Sea Environmental Monitoring Centre, State Oceanic Administration, Guangzhou, China text ZooKeys 2021 2021-02-24 1020 1 198 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1020.57921 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1020.57921 1313-2970-1020-1 CC23B8CE8C8E473CBD8C44E74252A33D F6561609F0F15EE8907C94528CA44E4F Lepidasthenia indet. Fig. 23B Diagnosis. Single specimen incomplete with at least 46 segments and 19 pairs of elytra. Elytra thin, colourless, fragile, without macrotubercles, on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26, 29, 32, 36, 39, 42, 45+. Nuchal flap absent. Facial tubercle present as small round flap ventral to antennae. Lateral antennae and median antenna terminally inserted. Two pairs of eyes present. Notochaetae absent, notopodia reduced to acicular lobe on neuropodia. Neurochaetae slender and of two types: long, thinner ones with spinous rows and fine blunt tips; additional wider, falcigerous ones with spinous rows subdistally on inflated region and larger tooth below distal tooth (tip) which is bifid or bidentate. Neuropodial prechaetal lobe slightly longer than postchaetal lobes. Papillae present on surface of neuropodium ventral to ventral cirrus. Remarks. There are 42 species of Lepidasthenia worldwide ( Read and Fauchald 2020 ), and several have been reported from Australian waters, but this specimen displays differences such as lack of nuchal flap (cf. Lepidasthenia michaelseni Augener, 1913) and lack of notochaetae as well as two types of neurochaetae (cf. Lepidasthenia australiensis (Augener, 1927). Further complete material is needed for identification to species. Records. 1 specimen. Suppl. material 1: op. 80 (AM).