Eulagisca
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| Eulagisca | |
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| Specimen of Eulagisca gigantea, at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Eulagisca McIntosh, 1885 |
| Type species | |
| Eulagisca corrientis McIntosh, 1885 | |
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.[1]
