WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Cuvier, G. (1817). Les Annélides. p.515-532 In. Le règne animal distribué d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparee. Volume 2. Contenant les Reptiles, les Poissons, les Mollusques et les Annélides. Deterville. Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28832992
page(s): 524-5; note: Species are only linked to the genus name in a footnote. [details]
original description
(of Nereidonta Blainville, 1828) Blainville, H. M. D de [Henri-Marie Ducrotay]. (1828). Mollusques, Vers et Zoophytes <b>[entries in VEA-VERS, volume 57]</b>. <em>In: Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-memês, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Suive d'une biographie des plus célèbres naturalistes.</em> vol. 57 [Tome LVII. Vea - Vers] F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg & Paris., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25316522
page(s): 475-476 [details]
original description
(of Tibiana Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>, Tome troisième, 586 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47702
page(s): 149; note: for Tibiana ramosa, and T. fasciculata [details] 
original description
(of Eriphyle Kinberg, 1865) Kinberg, J.G.H. (1865). Annulata nova. <em>Öfversigt af Königlich Vetenskapsakademiens förhandlingar, Stockholm.</em> 21(10): 559-574., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32289129
page(s): 561 [details]
original description
(of Mayeria Verrill, 1900) Verrill, A.E. 1900. 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., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27731368
page(s): 650 (footnote) [details] Available for editors  [request]
basis of record
Bellan, G. (2001). Polychaeta, <i>in</i>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 214-231. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Ecologyecology source
Kise, H.; Reimer, J. (2016). Unexpected diversity and a new species of Epizoanthus (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) attached to eunicid worm tubes from the Pacific Ocean. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 562: 49-71., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.562.6181
note: Epizoanthus association with zigzag Eunice tubes. Eunice spp not named, presumably unknown. [details]
Otheradditional source
Day, J. H. (1967). [Errantia] A monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Part 1. Errantia. British Museum (Natural History), London. pp. vi, 1–458, xxix., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/8596 [details]
additional source
Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I. ; Carrera-Parra, Luis F.; De León-González, Jesus Angel. 2011. Giant Eunicid Polychaetes (Annelida) in shallow tropical and temperate seas. Revista de Biologia Tropical 59(4): 1463–1474
, available online at http://biologiatropical.ucr.ac.cr/pages/vols/vol59-4.html [details]
additional source
Zanol, J.; Fauchald, K.; Paiva, P.C. (2007). A phylogenetic analysis of the genus <i>Eunice</i> (Eunicidae, polychaete, Annelida). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 150(2): 413-434., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00302.x [details]
additional source
Fauchald, K. (1977). The polychaete worms, definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA), Science Series.</em> 28:1-188., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/123110.pdf [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Cuvier (1817: 524) states in a footnote that he derived Eunice from the name of one of the female Nereides, stating "Eunice, nom d'une nereide dans Apollodore". This mention is a little unusual to see, as mostly authors of the time assumed readers had familiarity with the derivation of names from Classical times. Apollodorus of Athens was a Greek scholar and historian. [details]
Grammatical gender Feminine. A female personal name in classical Greece [details]
Type species Cuvier (1817: 525) only names a Eunice species in a footnote, and the name he uses is as "Terebella aphroditois, Gm. Pall. nov. act." followed by four other species names, of which one only may be a valid Eunice but is misspelled by Cuvier . Terebella aphroditois was originally Nereis aphroditois Pallas. Fauchald (1992: 3-4) discusses several issues around what the type species should be, and declares it should be Leodice gigantea Lamarck 1818, but this does not seem possible, as it was not included in Cuvier's work. See Fauchald (1992) for the full discussion. Cuvier's connection with 'gigantea' is that a specimen in the Paris museum was labelled as 'Nereis gigantea', and the name was attributed to Cuvier by some authors, but he himself did not publish that name in connection with his Eunice genus. [details]Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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