Eulagisca

{{short description|Genus of annelids}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Eulagisca gigantea.jpg | image_caption = Specimen of Eulagisca gigantea, at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center | image_upright = | image_alt = | taxon = Eulagisca | authority = McIntosh, 1885 | synonyms = | type_species = ''Eulagisca corrientis'' | type_species_authority = McIntosh, 1885 }} '''''Eulagisca''''' is a genus of marine polychaete worms belonging to the family Polynoidae. The genus includes 5 species which are all found in the Southern and Antarctic Oceans and are notable for reaching a large size, 180 mm or more long, larger than any other species of Polynoidae.<ref name=pettibone1997>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</ref>

==Description== Species of ''Eulagisca'' have 35–41 segments and 15 pairs of elytra. 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, and unlike the related genus ''Pareulagisca'', in ''Eulagisca'' all notochaetae are stout and have blunt tips.<ref name=pettibone1997></ref>

==Species== Five species of ''Eulagisca'' are recognised as of August 2020:<ref name=read> {{Cite web| last1 = Read| first1 = Geoffrey B.| last2 = Fauchald| first2 = Kristian| title = The World Polychaeta Database| date = 2020| url = http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/}} </ref>

*''Eulagisca corrientis'' McIntosh, 1885 *''Eulagisca gigantea'' Monro, 1939 *''Eulagisca macnabi'' Pettibone, 1997 *''Eulagisca puschkini'' Averincev, 1972 *''Eulagisca uschakovi'' Pettibone, 1997

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Category:Phyllodocida