Chloeia is a genus of marine polychaete worms.
Members of this genus are morphologically characterized by an elliptical body composed of certain number of segments, depending on the species, with external gills situated on both lateral sides of the back, each segment has a pair of them. Their number and repartition also depends on the species.Rômulo Barrosoa & Paulo Cesar Paivaa, A new deep-sea species of Chloeia (Polychaeta: Amphinomidae) from southern Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2011 Lateral sides of the body are cover with fin, sharp and venomous whitish calcareous bristles or setae. Adults of this genus are often colorful especially on the dorsum.
The locomotion is done by parapodia, every segment possesses a pair in bilateral position, from which are activated "paddles", one dorsally called notopodia and another one ventrally called neuropodia.
Chloeia's distribution is circumtropical. Most of the known species are found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean so only few species lives in the Atlantic Ocean.
List of species There are 28 species in the genus Chloeia: Chloeia amphora Horst, 1910 Chloeia australis Kudenov, 1993 Chloeia bengalensis Kinberg, 1867 Chloeia bistriata Grube, 1868 Chloeia candida Kinberg, 1857 Chloeia conspicua Horst, 1910 Chloeia egena Grube, 1855 Chloeia entypa Chamberlin, 1919 Chloeia flava (Pallas, 1766) Chloeia furcigera Quatrefages, 1866 Chloeia fusca McIntosh, 1885 Chloeia inermis Quatrefages, 1866 Chloeia kudenovi Barroso & Paiva, 2011 Chloeia macleayi Haswell, 1878 Chloeia maculata Potts, 1909 Chloeia malaica Kinberg, 1867 Chloeia nuda Quatrefages, 1866 Chloeia parva Baird, 1868 Chloeia pinnata Moore, 1911 Chloeia pseudeuglochis Augener, 1922 Chloeia quatrefagesii Baird, 1868 Chloeia rosea Potts, 1909 Chloeia rupestris Risso, 1826 Chloeia tumida Baird, 1868 Chloeia venusta Quatrefages, 1866 Chloeia violacea Horst, 1910 Chloeia viridis Schmarda, 1861 Chloeia bimaculata
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