Genus Eunice Cuvier, 1817

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• Eunice Cuvier, G. 1817. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base … l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée: Les Reptiles, les Poissons, les Mollusques et les Annélides. Paris : Déterville Libraire 1-532 pp. [524].

  Type species:

   Nereis aphroditois Pallas, 1788 by original designation.
• Tibiana Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Paris : Verdière Vol. 2 568 pp. [148] [name erected for two species T. fasciculata and T. ramosa, both tubes of an unidentifiable species of Eunice, see Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1–422 (28)].

  Secondary source:

   Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1-422.
• Eriphyle Kinberg, J.G.H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 21(10): 559-574 [561].
• Mayeria Verrill, A.E. 1900. XVIII. — Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10(2): 595-671 [650].

Introduction

In a revision of the genus in Australian waters Zanol et al. (2020) assessed the status of species previously recorded in Eunice and the closely related genera Leodice and Nicidion. They described seven new species, four of Eunice and three Leodice, and considered the records of 10 species from Australia to be dubious. We follow Zanol et al. (2020) in treating these species as dubious and place them here as excluded taxa.

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

EUNICIDAE: Eunice denticulata Webster, 1884 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [19]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice filamentosa Grube, 1856 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [19]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice grubei Gravier, 1900 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [19]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice indica Kinberg, 1865 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [20]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice longicirris Grube, 1869 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [20]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice microprion Marenzeller, 1879 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [20]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice paupera Grube, 1878 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [20]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice tubifex Crossland, 1904 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [21]

EUNICIDAE: Eunice vittata delle Chiaje, 1828 — Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [21]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Citations

Eunice.
—Ehlers, E. 1868. Die Borstenwürmer, nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann 1–290 pp. [303].
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [144].

General References

Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43

History of changes