Long forgotten: Eunice woodwardi Baird, 1869 (Annelida, Eunicidae) revisited, with an insight on internal anatomy.

ABSTRACT: Eunice woodwardiBaird, 1869, originally described from the Ría de A Coruña (NW Iberian Peninsula), has been overlooked and never reported from the Atlantic coast of Spain after original description and the subsequent redescription of the holotype. In the present study, we revised comparatively the holotype, newly collected specimens of this species and specimens identified as Eunice vittata (Delle Chiaje, 1829) from western Mediterranean Sea. The validity of E. woodwardi is supported and previous descriptions are complemented after a throughout study of the external morphology by means of light compound microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, and that of the internal anatomy by histological sectioning and micro-computed tomography. The presence of eyes, nuchal org

SUBMITTER: Barroso M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013482 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature