A Review of the Genus Eunice - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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FIGURE 10.—Eunice antarctica (syntype, BM(NH) ZB 1972.70): a, anterior end, lateral view; b, parapodium 21,
anterior view; c, compound falciger, parapodium 21; d, pectinate seta, parapodium 21; e, acicula, parapodium
106; f, subacicular hook, parapodium 106; g, parapodium 106, anterior view. (Scale bars in mm.)
12. Eunice antennata (Lamarck, 1818)
FIGURE 11; TABLES 2, 46. 47
Leodice antennata Lamarck, 1818:322.—Savigny, 1820:49-50, pi. 5: fig.
1.1-27.
Eunice antennata.—Audouin and Milne Edwards, 1833:219.
MATERIAL EXAMINED.—BM(NH) ZH 1869.7.8.6, Gulf of
Suez, presented by R. McAndrew, Esq.
COMMENTS ON MATERIAL EXAMINED.—The type material is
lost; the largest specimen in ZH 1869.7.8.6 is here described in
detail; variability is indicated in Table 2. These specimens were
collected a few years after the opening of the Suez Canal. It
appears unlikely that the fauna would have been extensively
modified compared to the one present during Napoleon I's
expedition to Egypt. The material studied by Savigny and
Lamarck was collected during the latter expedition.
DESCRIPTION.—Specimen complete, of unknown sex, with
98 setigers; total length 54 mm; maximal width 3 mm; length
through setiger 10, 7 mm.
Prostomium (Figure lla) nearly as long as anterior peristomial
ring, distinctly narrower than peristomium, about as deep
as 72 the depth of peristomium. Prostomial lobes frontally