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Blake 92017: 118) comments on Pettibonella in relation to the similar Proscoloplos, maintains them as separate, and notes that "the presence of thoracic neuropodial uncini is therefore the most obvious character that differentiates Pettibonella from Proscoloplos and is similar to the manner in which Leitoscoloplos is separated from Scoloplos."

Blake, James A. (2017). Polychaeta Orbiniidae from Antarctica, the Southern Ocean, the Abyssal Pacific Ocean, and off South America. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4218(1): 1-145 [monograph]. available online at http://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4218.1.1/25653