In some genera there are no gills, e.g. Leaena.
These characters are not necessarily generic.
Eisig, "Die Capitelliden," Fauna u. Flora G. v. Neapel, Monogr. xvi. 1887.
Ed. Meyer., Arch. mikr. Anat. xxi. 1882, p. 769.
Vejdovsky, Denk. Akad. Wien, xliii. 1882, part 2, p. 33; and Rietsch, Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) ser. 6, xiii. 1882, art. 5.