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Deep-Sea taxon details
original description
Wesenberg-Lund, Elise. (1949). Polychaetes of the Iranian Gulf. <em>Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran.</em> 4: 247-400.
page(s): 305-310; note: a joint genus plus species description for Euniphysa aculeata [details] Available for editors 
taxonomy source
Lu, Hua; Fauchald, Kristian. (2000). A phylogenetic and biogeographic study of <i>Euniphysa</i> (Eunicidae, Polychaeta). <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 34(7): 997-1044., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930050020113 [details] Available for editors
 Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis (from Lu & Fauchald 2000) "Eunicids with a pair of palps and three antennae, all slender and tapering without distinct articulations. Peristomial cirri present. Anterior jaw elements (Mx-III, IV and V) fang-like with slender, pointed tips, number of teeth in each piece is low (two to four). Branchiae present. Notopodia with a narrow cirrophore and a tapering cirrostyle; base of cirrostyles distinctly enlarged and glandular at least in some median chaetigers, sometimes forming distinct pendant lobes. A small, fleshy knob present dorsal to aciculae on the acicular lobe. Limbate chaetae, pectinate chaetae, aciculae, subacicular hooks and compound spinigers always present; pseudocompound spinigers and compound falcigers present in some species." [details]
Etymology Not directly stated but a combination of Eunice and Marphysa, both feminine names. Wesenberg-Lund (1949: 310) wrote: "The presence of nuchal cirri points towards Eunice, but the shape of the compound setae towards Marphysa; on account of this the new generic name Euniphysa was established." [details]
Grammatical gender feminine, indicated by treatment by original author [details]From other sources
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
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