taxonID	type	description	language	source
BFC4505048315B2D9E7CF99DC97D5DF1.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2	en	Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat (2022): A new species of giant Eunice (Eunicidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) from the east coast of Australia. ZooKeys 1118: 97-109, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448
BFC4505048315B2D9E7CF99DC97D5DF1.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined. Holotype. Australia • New South Wales, Nelson Bay, Port Stephens Main Beach; 32 ° 42 ' 54.91 " S, 152 ° 9 ' 1.12 " E; 8 m depth; Aug. 2012; D. Harasti leg.; AM W. 53870. Paratype. Australia • 1 same data as for holotype; AM W. 41747.	en	Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat (2022): A new species of giant Eunice (Eunicidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) from the east coast of Australia. ZooKeys 1118: 97-109, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448
BFC4505048315B2D9E7CF99DC97D5DF1.taxon	materials_examined	Comparative material. Australia • 1 incomplete with 80 chaetigers, 120 mm in length and 20 mm maximum width Eunice cf. aphroditois; New South Wales, Nelson Bay, Port Stephens; AM W. 140.	en	Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat (2022): A new species of giant Eunice (Eunicidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) from the east coast of Australia. ZooKeys 1118: 97-109, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448
BFC4505048315B2D9E7CF99DC97D5DF1.taxon	description	Description. Live specimens: iridescent reddish with lighter patches on prostomium, peristomium, and along the body (Fig. 1 A, B). Prostomium appendages, peristomial cirri, and notopodial cirri red to brown, uniformly colored, with lighter areas close to proximal half and at distal ends. Dorsal and ventral buccal lips whitish at distal end, standing out from posterior part of prostomium (Fig. 1 B; see Suppl. material 2). Fixed specimens iridescent brown to purple with lighter patches. Only peristomial cirri and few notopodial cirri retain color pattern of live specimens, prostomial appendages beige (Fig. 1 A-C). Specimens are very curled and rigid because of the 95 % ethanol fixation, making measurement of length and width difficult. Holotype incomplete, with 520 chaetigers, in two pieces; first with 300 chaetigers, 200 well preserved + 100 slightly flaccid, and second with 220 chaetigers, all slightly flaccid; total length 980 mm; length through chaetiger 10 20 mm; width at chaetiger 10 without / with parapodia 12 / 15 mm, maximum width at chaetiger 18 without / with parapodia 18 / 22 mm, from chaetiger 18 width fairly uniform for following 200 chaetigers. Many parapodia with broken chaetae. Paratype incomplete with 782 chaetigers in three pieces, first with 250 chaetigers, second with 222, all slightly flaccid, and third with 310 chaetigers; total length 1170 mm; length through chaetiger 10 20 mm; width at chaetiger 10 without / with parapodia 16 / 19 mm; maximum width at chaetiger 100 without / with parapodia 18 / 23 mm. Body almost semicircular anteriorly, becoming more flattened around chaetiger 70 - 80. Prostomium with dorsal buccal lips as paired median dorsal ridges, obliquely truncate, with thickened lateral margins and median sulcus narrow (Fig. 1 B). Dark eyes present outside lateral antennae. Median, lateral antennae and palps reaching back, respectively, to chaetigers 4 (9), 5 (9) and at least until middle of first peristomium ring (3) (antennae and palps are very rigid and difficult to manipulate in holotype; measurements are estimates). Prostomial appendages not evenly spaced, palps isolated by a small gap from lateral antennae; arranged in semicircle, palps partially in front of lateral antennae (Fig. 1 B). Ceratophores of median and lateral antennae and palpophores short and ring-shaped. Ceratostyles of median and lateral antennae and palpostyles irregularly articulated; tapering (Fig. 1 E). Peristomium cylindrical; separation between first and second rings only visible on dorsal and ventral sides; ventrally second ring much shorter than dorsally (Fig. 1 C-E). Dorsally first ring 5 / 6 of total length of peristomium. Ventrolateral lips muscular and inflated (Fig. 1 D). Peristomial cirri reaching a little more anterior than middle of first peristomial ring; irregularly articulated; tapering (Fig. 1 C, E). Maxillary formula 1 + 1, 7 + 7, 7 + 0, 4 + 7, 1 + 1, 1 + 1 (Fig. 2 A). Carrier with lateral anterior sclerotized margins almost parallel to each other, abrupt tapering after initial 1 / 3 of its length. MxI about 2.5 times longer than carrier, lacking a curvature at internal basal edge, with a curvature at outer basal edge, falcal arch extended. MxII with teeth distributed along more than half its length, posterior end wide with distinct thickened outer ridge. MxIII short; part of distal arc with left MxIV and V. MxVI ridge like with a narrow distal tooth. Mandibles calcareous cutting plates with ellipsoid shape (Fig. 2 B). Branchiae present from 10 (10) until at least chaetiger 520, end of branchiae not recorded (branchiae ends well before pygidium on chaetiger 492); first with just 1 button-shaped filament around 1 / 5 of dorsal cirri length (Fig. 1 H), around chaetiger 22 as long as notopodial cirri, number of filaments rapidly increasing to 38 (26); best developed branchiae from about chaetiger 40 through subsequent chaetigers with thick tapering stems, around 2.5 to 4 times longer than longest filament and notopodial cirri (Fig. 1 F, J); becoming shorter at end of most posterior fragment (becoming shorter at end of distribution). Chaetal lobes truncate along whole fragment, posterior increasingly oblique; anterior with dorsal fleshy knob and neuroaciculae emerging posterior to it (Fig. 1 F, I); neuroaciculae near dorsal edge in all parapodia. Prechaetal lobe low transverse fold until end of fragment. Postchaetal lobes round / truncate, longer than chaetal lobe at anterior end (Fig. 1 D), decreasing along the body, low transverse fold shorter than chaetal lobe by end of fragment. Anteriormost ventral cirri thumb-shaped to tapering, becoming basally inflated from about chaetiger 4 or 5; inflated bases elongate, ridge-like decreasing towards posterior end; free tip round to slightly tapering in all chaetigers, clearly separated from base (Fig. 1 D, F). Notopodial cirri pendulous, abrupt tapering from inflated bases, irregularly articulated (Fig. 1 D-F, H). Slender, tapering limbate chaetae longer than all other chaetae present in all chaetigers. Pectinate chaetae thin anodont with flattened shafts; tapering smoothly subdistally or near proximal end along whole fragment (Fig. 2 D, F, G). Numbers of teeth variable, 10 - 14 (N = 21, mode = 11); each tooth flattened, distally tapering abruptly to slender hair-like tip; all with similar lengths. Distal ends of compound falciger chaetae shafts a little wider than proximal ends along whole fragment. Appendages of compound falciger chaetae with variable lengths within a chaetal bundle of anterior parapodia, longest in anterior parapodia; shortest appendages of anterior chaetigers as long as appendages in median and posterior chaetigers, all with similar lengths; bidentate with both teeth directed laterally; both teeth about same length in anterior chaetigers, distal tooth much shorter than proximal tooth in median and posterior chaetigers; guards asymmetrically blunt (Fig. 2 H, I). Neuroaciculae distinctly dark along all its length, double in most parapodia, some posterior parapodia with single acicula; tapering to blunt or sharp tips (Fig. 1 F, G). Subacicular hooks present from chaetiger 58 (53); initially one per parapodium, increasing to two, reaching a maximum of four at chaetiger 81 (85) subsequent parapodia with three or four, most posterior with two; distinct, dark along all its length, with distinct dark core and clear sheath at distal end; bidentate tapering to small head, distal tooth minute, spur-like, proximal tooth much larger, both teeth directed distally (Fig. 2 C, E). In both types many chaetae broken. Posterior end of body and pygidium missing.	en	Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat (2022): A new species of giant Eunice (Eunicidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) from the east coast of Australia. ZooKeys 1118: 97-109, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448
BFC4505048315B2D9E7CF99DC97D5DF1.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named in honor of Dr David Harasti, who collected the specimens, donated them to the Australian Museum, and first suspected they were a species new to science.	en	Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat (2022): A new species of giant Eunice (Eunicidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) from the east coast of Australia. ZooKeys 1118: 97-109, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1118.86448
