Eulagisca uschakovi | |
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Dorsal view of a Eulagisca uschakovi specimen from Museums Victoria | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Annelida |
Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
Subclass: | Errantia |
Order: | Phyllodocida |
Family: | Polynoidae |
Genus: | Eulagisca |
Species: | E. uschakovi
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Binomial name | |
Eulagisca uschakovi Pettibone, 1997[1]
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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
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. "World Polychaeta database. Eulagisca uschakovi". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ a b 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.