Eulagisca uschakovi

Eulagisca uschakovi is a giant scale worm known from the Antarctic, in waters such as off Mac.Robertson Land, Palmer Archipelago and the Weddell Sea, at depths of 10 to 920m.[2]

Eulagisca uschakovi
Dorsal view of a Eulagisca uschakovi specimen from Museums Victoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Polychaeta
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Eulagisca
Species:
E. uschakovi
Binomial name
Eulagisca uschakovi
Pettibone, 1997[1]

Description

Specimens can grow to up to around 190mm in length. The body is brownish at the mid-dorsum. Elytra are large and thin, with brownish splashes of pigmentation and sharp, pointed papillae. Wide, ovular prostomium with the median antenna with a large ceratophore in an anterior notch. Notochaetae capillary type, and slightly thicker than the capillary Neurochaetae.[2]

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References

  1. Read, G.; Fauchald, K. "World Polychaeta database. Eulagisca uschakovi". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  2. Pettibone, M. (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 Royal Society of Washington. 110 (4): 537–551.
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