Species Eunice franklini Monro, 1924

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• Eunice franklini Monro, C.C.A. 1924. On the polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Alert', 1881–1882. Families Polynoidae, Sigalionidae, and Eunicidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 36: 37-64 [56-57].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ZK 1924.1.28.81 (incomplete, 92 chaetigers), Franklin Shoal, Arafura Sea [9°53'S, 129°19'E].

Introduction

Species not reported since it was first described (see Zanol et al. 2020)

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf.

Citations

Eunice franklini.
—Fauchald, K. 1986. Review of the types and key to the species of Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) from the Australian region. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 241–262 [250–251, figs 41–45].
—Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1–422 [148, fig. 48a–e].

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 [5]

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