Eunice vittata
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Eunice vittata (delle Chiaje, 1828)
Nereis vittata delle Chiaje, 1828: 195.
Eunice vittata.— Grube 1850: 93.— Dounas & Koukouras 1989: 227.— Fauchald 1992: 337.
Remarks. This species has been reported from South Australia (AM records), Victoria and New South Wales in Australia (Day & Hutchings 1979), and more generally in most oceans of the world, although it was originally described from the Mediterranean. The characterizing features of the taxon have usually been taken to be the presence of tridentate subacicular hooks, branchiae limited to the anterior end of the body and antennae with elongated cylindrical articulations. This characterization is insufficient to identify the species. Eunice vittata has multiple subacicular hooks, usually four or five, in a row (Dounas & Koukouras 1989; Fauchald 1992). All specimens from Australia identified as this species present in AM collections and examined by us have single subacicular hooks, most of them are re-identified here as Leodice australis. The others are in relatively poor shape. Anterior appendages have been lost or mutilated or they are incomplete, making identification unwarranted at this time. We suggest that this species does not occur in Australian waters.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Delle Chiaje
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Annelida
- Order
- Eunicida
- Family
- Eunicidae
- Genus
- Eunice
- Species
- vittata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eunice vittata (Chiaje, 1828) sec. Zanol, Hutchings & Fauchald, 2020
References
- delle Chiaje, S. (1828) Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del Regno di Napoli. Vol. 3. Stamperia della Societa Tipografica, Naples, 232 pp.
- Grube, A. E. (1850) Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 16, 249 - 364.
- Dounas, C. & Koukouras, A. (1989) Some observations on the possible synonymy of Eunice vittata (Delle Chiaje, 1825) and E. indica Kinberg, 1865 (Annelida, Polychaeta). Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 30, 227 - 234.
- Fauchald, K. (1992) A review of the genus Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 523, 1 - 422. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.523
- Day, J. H. & Hutchings, P. A. (1979) An annotated check-list of Australian and New Zealand Polychaeta, Archiannelida and Myzostomida. Records of the Australian Museum, 32, 80 - 161. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.32.1979.203