Eunoe (animal)
Eunoe is a genus of marine annelids in the family Polynoidae. The genus includes 48 species which are found world-wide, mostly from depths of 50 m or more.
Description
Body dorsoventrally flattened, short, with up to 50 segments; dorsum more or less covered by elytra or short posterior region uncovered. Fifteen pairs of elytra on segments 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 26, 29, and 32. Prostomium with or without distinct cephalic peaks and three antennae; lateral antennae inserted ventrally to median antenna. Anterior pair of eyes dorsolateral at widest part of prostomium, posterior pair dorsal near hind margin. Parapodia with elongate acicular lobes with both acicula penetrating epidermis; neuropodia with a supra-acicular process. Notochaetae stout with distinct rows of spines and blunt tip. Neurochaetae more numerous and more slender, with distinct rows of spines distally and exclusively unidentate tips.
The genus was described in 1865, with a modern redescription in Barnich & Fiege. Eunoe is one of a number of related genera with 15 pairs of elytra.
Species
The following species of Eunoe were accepted as valid as of October 2019:Eunoe abyssorum McIntosh, 1885Eunoe alvinella Pettibone, 1989Eunoe anderssoni Eunoe assimilis McIntosh, 1924Eunoe barbata Moore, 1910Eunoe bathydomus Eunoe brunnea Hartman, 1978Eunoe campbellica Averincev, 1978Eunoe clarki Pettibone, 1951Eunoe crassa Eunoe depressa Moore, 1905Eunoe etheridgei Eunoe eura Chamberlin, 1919Eunoe hartmanae Eunoe hozawai Okuda, 1939Eunoe hubrechti Eunoe hydroidopapillata Rzhavsky & Shabad, 1999Eunoe iphionoides McIntosh, 1885Eunoe ivantsovi Averincev, 1978Eunoe kermadeca Kirkegaard, 1995Eunoe laetmogonensis Kirkegaard & Billett, 1980Eunoe leiotentaculata Averincev, 1978Eunoe macrophthalma McIntosh, 1924Eunoe mammiloba Czerniavsky, 1882Eunoe nodosa Eunoe nodulosa Day, 1967Eunoe oerstedi Malmgren, 1865Eunoe opalina McIntosh, 1885Eunoe pallida Eunoe papillaris Averincev, 1978Eunoe papillosa Amaral & Nonato, 1982Eunoe purpurea Treadwell, 1936Eunoe rhizoicola Hartmann-Schröder, 1962Eunoe senta Eunoe sentiformis Uschakov, 1958Eunoe serrata Amaral & Nonato, 1982Eunoe shirikishinai Imajima & Hartman, 1964Eunoe spinicirris Annenkova, 1937Eunoe spinosa Imajima, 1997Eunoe spinulosa Verrill, 1879Eunoe subfumida Eunoe subtruncata Annenkova, 1937Eunoe tritoni McIntosh, 1900Eunoe tuerkayi Barnich & Fiege, 2003Eunoe uniseriata Banse & Hobson, 1968Eunoe yedoensis McIntosh, 1885