Pareulagisca is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae (scale worms). The genus contains a single species, Pareulagisca panamensis, known from a single specimen, collected intertidally in Panama in the Pacific Ocean.[2]
| Pareulagisca | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Annelida |
| Clade: | Pleistoannelida |
| Subclass: | Errantia |
| Order: | Phyllodocida |
| Family: | Polynoidae |
| Genus: | Pareulagisca Pettibone, 1997 |
| Type species | |
| Pareulagisca panamensis (Hartman, 1939)[1] | |
Description
editPareulagisca is characterised by having 16 pairs of elytra and about 37 segments. The lateral antennae are undivided and inserted terminally on the prostomium. There is a distinctive dorsal fold ("nuchal flap" in the taxonomic literature) on segment 2. Unlike the related genus Eulagisca, Pareulagisca has long slender notochaetae with fine tapering tips in addition to stout notochaetae with blunt tips.
References
edit- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Pareulagisca Pettibone, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324974
- ^ Pettibone, Marian H. 1997. Revision of the scaleworm genus Eulagisca McIntosh (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) with the erection of the subfamily Eulagiscinae and the new genus Pareulagisca. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 110(4): 537–551.