Species Leodice elseyi (Baird, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eunice elsyi Baird, W. 1869. Remarks on several genera of Annelids, belonging to the group Eunicea, with a notice of such species as are contained in the collection of the British Museum, and a description of some others hitherto undescribed. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 341-361 [344].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ZH 1857.11.18.249 (2 specimens), northern Australia.
• Eunice elseyi McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 12: 1-554 [286 figs 46-47, pl. 39 figs 1-3, pl. 20Afigs 14-16] [emendation of Eunice elsyi].

Generic Combinations

• Leodice elseyi (Baird, 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 [26]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Citations

Eunice elseyi.
—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 [249–250, figs 35–40].
—Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1–422 [132, fig. 41l–q].

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