Biology:Eulagisca uschakovi
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Short description: Species of annelid worm
| Eulagisca uschakovi | |
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| Dorsal view of a Eulagisca uschakovi specimen from Museums Victoria | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Eulagisca |
| Species: | E. uschakovi
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| 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
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
- ↑ Read, G.; Fauchald, K.. "World Polychaeta database. Eulagisca uschakovi". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327572. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35458571#page/567.
Wikidata ☰ Q3103630 entry
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