Verrucapelma is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms).

[2] Species of Verrucapelma are short-bodied scale worms with 30 to about 39 segments and 15 pairs of elytra, the margins of which have a fringe of papillae.

The neuropodial lobe is elongate and tapering and has two or three distinctive wart-like tubercles along the ventral edge.

The notochaetae are about as thick as the neurochaetae and both are ornamented with transverse rows of small spines.

The notochaetae may be unidentate, or in one species, with notched tips, while the neurochaetae are all bidentate.