WoRMS taxon details
original description
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 page(s): 41-42, plate 6 figs. a-d [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 [details]
additional source
Böggemann, Markus 2009. Polychaetes (Annelida) of the abyssal SE Atlantic. Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 9, 252-428.
, available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1439609209000464 page(s): 354 [details]
Holotype LACM AHF, geounit North West Atlantic [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 530-5000 m. [details]
Distribution NW Atlantic Ocean: continental slope off New England (USA); Hatteras Abyssal Plain. [details]
Editor's comment Genus wrongly recorded in WoRMS, with binominal as Eteone anoculata, until 26 Feb 2012. [details]
Etymology Not explicitly stated by the authors. The specific epithet anoculata is composed by the Greek prefix an- ('without' or 'lacking') followed by the Latin adjective oculata ('having eyes'), and refers presumably to the absence of eyes in the species: "prostomium [...] without eyes [...] Eulalia anoculata differs from other species of the genus in that [...] Eyes are absent" (Hartman & Fauchald, 1971: 41-42). [details]
Habitat Slope and abyssal depths (530-5000 m). [details]
Holotype Deposited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles (USA). [details]
Homonymy Senior primary homonym to Eulalia anoculata Fauchald, 1972 [details]
Type locality Continental slope off New England (USA), NW Atlantic Ocean (39.8117°, -70.68°), 1102 m. [details]
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