WoRMS taxon details
Eulagisca gigantea Monro, 1939
174428 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174428)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Monro, Charles C. A. (1939). Polychaeta. <em>B.A.N.Z.Antarctic Research Expedition Reports, Ser. B Zoology and Botany.</em> 4(4): 87-156. [details] Available for editors 
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Type locality contained in Southern Ocean
, Note Antarctic Ocean
type locality contained in Southern Ocean [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Antarctic Ocean [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Eulagisca gigantea Monro, 1939. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174428 on 2025-06-23
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Nomenclature
original description
Monro, Charles C. A. (1939). Polychaeta. <em>B.A.N.Z.Antarctic Research Expedition Reports, Ser. B Zoology and Botany.</em> 4(4): 87-156. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Taxonomy
redescription
Pettibone, Marian Hope. (1997). Revision of the scaleworm genus <i>Eulagisca McIntosh</i> (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) with the erection of the subfamily Eulagiscinae and the new genus <i>Pareulagisca</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 110(4): 537-551., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35458571
page(s): 540-543, fig. 2A-F; note: redescription with base on type and non-type material [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 540-543, fig. 2A-F; note: redescription with base on type and non-type material [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype NHMUK 1941.3.3.16, verbatimGeounit off Princess Elizabe... [details]
From editor or global species database
Specimen The Natural History Museum, London [details]Type locality Antarctic Ocean [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eulagisca gigantea)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Eulagisca gigantea Monro, 1939; syntype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536976)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eulagisca gigantea USNM 74575 bristles)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (4 records)
Wikipedia
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Eulagisca gigantea)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NHMUK collection (Eulagisca gigantea Monro, 1939; syntype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3536976)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Eulagisca gigantea USNM 74575 bristles)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (4 records)
Wikipedia
To ITIS
