Eulagisca uschakovi

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Eulagisca uschakovi
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Dorsal view of a Eulagisca uschakovi specimen from Museums Victoria
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Clade: Pleistoannelida
Subclass: Errantia
Order: Phyllodocida
Family: Polynoidae
Genus: Eulagisca
Species:
E. uschakovi
Binomial name
Eulagisca uschakovi
Pettibone, 1997 [1]

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]

Description

Specimens can grow to up to around 190mm in length and have 39 segments with 15 pairs of elytra. The body is brownish at the mid-dorsum. The elytra are large and thin, with brownish splashes of pigmentation and fringe of sharp, pointed papillae along their margin. Wide, ovular prostomium with the median antenna with a large ceratophore in an anterior notch and lateral antennae inserted terminally on anterior margin of prostomium. Notochaetae are capillary-type and 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. 1 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.