WoRMS name details
Eunice enteles (Chamberlin, 1918)
340417 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:340417)
unaccepted (superseded recombination)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Leodice enteles Chamberlin, 1918) Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1918. Polychaetes from Monterey Bay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 31: 173-180., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3332088
page(s): 175-176 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 175-176 [no figures] [details]
Status There are no original figures and types are lost. Fauchald regarded the species as indeterminable. It can be referred...
Status There are no original figures and types are lost. Fauchald regarded the species as indeterminable. It can be referred back to the original Leodice (reinstated as a valid genus distinct from Eunice) because of the strongly moniliform antennae mentioned in Chamberlin's original description. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Eunice enteles (Chamberlin, 1918). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=340417 on 2025-06-20
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Leodice enteles Chamberlin, 1918) Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1918. Polychaetes from Monterey Bay. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 31: 173-180., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3332088
page(s): 175-176 [no figures] [details]
new combination reference Hartman, O. 1938. Descriptions of new species and new generic records of polychaetous annelids from California of the families Glyceridae, Eunicidae, Stauronereidae, and Opheliidae. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43(6): 93-111.
page(s): 97, figs. 10-11; note: Brief comparative remarks on Eunice enteles, which appears to be a new combination here, and inclusion in it of Leodice monilifer Chamberlin, 1919. There is no description. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 175-176 [no figures] [details]
new combination reference Hartman, O. 1938. Descriptions of new species and new generic records of polychaetous annelids from California of the families Glyceridae, Eunicidae, Stauronereidae, and Opheliidae. University of California Publications in Zoology, 43(6): 93-111.
page(s): 97, figs. 10-11; note: Brief comparative remarks on Eunice enteles, which appears to be a new combination here, and inclusion in it of Leodice monilifer Chamberlin, 1919. There is no description. [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
status source
Fauchald, K. (1992). A review of the genus <i>Eunice</i> (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 523: 1-422., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.523
page(s): 132, 224; note: Placed as indeterminable (type missing). See both entry for Eunice enteles on page 132, and entry for Eunice monilifer (which Fauchald did not synonymize) on page 224 [details]
page(s): 132, 224; note: Placed as indeterminable (type missing). See both entry for Eunice enteles on page 132, and entry for Eunice monilifer (which Fauchald did not synonymize) on page 224 [details]
Other
additional source
Rioja, Enrique. (1941). Estudios anelidológicos. III. Datos para el conocimiento de la fauna de poliquetos de las costas del Pacífico de México. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, México.</em> 12(2): 669-746., available online at https://anales.ib.unam.mx/index.php/anales/article/view/487
page(s): 710 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 710 [details] Available for editors
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Status There are no original figures and types are lost. Fauchald regarded the species as indeterminable. It can be referred back to the original Leodice (reinstated as a valid genus distinct from Eunice) because of the strongly moniliform antennae mentioned in Chamberlin's original description. [details]
