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Eulagisca
Sign in to saveEulagisca 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.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumAnnelida
- ClassPolychaeta
- OrderPhyllodocida
- FamilyPolynoidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Polynoidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- Chile, Antarctica, South Sandwich Islands
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- Parent taxon
- Polynoidae
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- Eulagisca uschakovi whole F135058.jpg
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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.
==Description== 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.
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