Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion
Author
Zanol, Joana
Author
Hutchings, Pat A.
Author
Fauchald, Kristian
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-05
4748
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1
43
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.1
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1175-5326
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Eunice longicirris
Grube, 1869
Eunice longicirris
Grube, 1869: 492
.—
Fauchald 1992: 198
.
Remarks.
This species was reported from
Western Australia
by
Augener (1922a)
, but has not been otherwise found in
Australia
. The identity of Augener’s specimens is open to some doubt, even if he did compare them directly to the
type
described from the Red Sea (
Augener 1922a: 34
). Characteristics for the species are the very long, slender notopodial cirri which, in the
type
specimen clearly outreach the branchiae in all chaetigers and the nearly bamboolike articulation of these cirri. Augener had two specimens and described them separately. The specimen illustrated does not belong to
E. longicirris
,
since branchiae clearly outreach the notopodial cirri, which lack or have very indistinct articulations and are distinctly tapering, rather than nearly filiform. We therefore suggest that this species does not occur in Australian waters.