Eulagisca is a genus of marine polychaete worms belonging to the family Polynoidae. The genus includes 5 species which are all found in the Southern and Antarctic Oceans and are notable for reaching a large size - 180 mm or more long - larger than any other species of Polynoidae.[1]
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| Dorsal view of a Eulagisca uschakovi specimen from Museums Victoria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Eulagisca McIntosh, 1885 |
| Type species | |
| Eulagisca corrientis McIntosh, 1885
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Description edit
Species of Eulagisca have 35–41 segments and 15 pairs of elytra. The lateral antennae are undivided and inserted terminally on the prostomium . There is a distinctive dorsal fold ("nuchal flap" in the taxonomic literature) on segment 2, and unlike the related genus Pareulagisca, in Eulagisca all notochaetae are stout and have blunt tips.[1]
Species edit
Five species of Eulagisca are recognised as of August 2020:[2]
- Eulagisca corrientis McIntosh, 1885
- Eulagisca gigantea Monro, 1939
- Eulagisca macnabi Pettibone, 1997
- Eulagisca puschkini Averincev, 1972
- Eulagisca uschakovi Pettibone, 1997
References edit
- ^ a b Pettibone, Marian H. 1997. Revision of the scaleworm genus Eulagisca McIntosh (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) with the erection of the subfamily Eulagiscinae and the new genus Pareulagisca. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 110(4): 537–551
- ^ Read, Geoffrey B.; Fauchald, Kristian (2020). "The World Polychaeta Database".
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