Eulagisca uschakovi
Species of annelid worm
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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]
| Eulagisca uschakovi | |
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| Dorsal view of a Eulagisca uschakovi specimen from Museums Victoria | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Eulagisca |
| Species: | E. uschakovi |
| Binomial name | |
| Eulagisca uschakovi Pettibone, 1997[1] | |
Description
Specimens can grow to up to around 190 mm 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]