Eunoe papillaris

Eunoe papillaris is a scale worm described from south of Tasmania in the Southern Ocean at a depths of about 1600m.^[2]

Eunoe papillaris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Annelida
Clade:	Pleistoannelida
Subclass:	Errantia
Order:	Phyllodocida
Family:	Polynoidae
Genus:	Eunoe
Species:	E. papillaris
Binomial name
Eunoe papillaris Averincev, 1978[1]

Description

Number of segments 37; elytra 15 pairs. Dorsum light, yellowish; ventrum centrally brown, parapodial and cirral tips purple. Prostomium anterior margin comprising a pair of acute anterior projections. Lateral antennae inserted ventrally (beneath prostomium and median antenna). Notochaetae about as thick as neurochaetae. Bidentate neurochaetae absent.^[3]

References

1. Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Eunoe papillaris Averincev, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=327848
2. Averincev, V. G. (1978). The Polychaetous Annelids of the Aphroditiformia of the Shelf and Upper Bathial of Australian and New Zealand Region and of Macquarie Island (on the Base Data of 16th Cruise of R/V Dmitri Mendeleev).]. Transactions of the P.P.Shirov Institute of Oceanology Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. 113: 51-72.
3. Fauchald, K.; Wilson, R.S. (2003). "Polynoidae (Polychaeta)-A DELTA database of genera, and Australian species". In R.S. Wilson; P.A. Hutchings; C. J. Glasby (eds.). Polychaetes: An Interactive Identification Guide. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.