Biology:Eulagisca uschakovi

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Short description: Species of annelid worm

Eulagisca uschakovi
Eulagisca uschakovi whole F135058.jpg
Dorsal view of a Eulagisca uschakovi specimen from Museums Victoria
Scientific classification edit
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]


References

Wikidata ☰ Q3103630 entry