Eulagisca puschkini is a scale worm that is only known from a single specimen collected at a depth of 32m by a SCUBA diver in the Ross Sea.[2]
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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: | Eulagisca |
| Species: | E. puschkini
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| Binomial name | |
| Eulagisca puschkini Averincev, 1972[1]
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Description
editEulagisa puschkini has 40 segments and 15 pairs of elytra, and has a brownish pigment (though the patterning is not clear). Lateral antennae are inserted terminally on the anterior margin of the prostomium. Notochaetae are distinctly thicker than neurochaetae, and bidentate neurochaetae are present.[2]
References
edit- ^ Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2020). World Polychaeta database. Eulagisca puschkini Averincev, 1972. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174429
- ^ a b Averincev, V. G. (1972). Benthic polychaetes Errantia from the Antarctic and Subantarctic collected by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition]. Issledovaniya fauny morei. Zoologicheskii Institut Akademii Nauk USSR. 11(19): 88–292 [Biological Results of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions, 5].