Galapagos Species Database
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Lysidice unicornis
Poliqueto, Polychaeta
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Annelida
Class
Polychaeta
Order
Eunicida
Family
Eunicidae
Genus
Lysidice
Species
unicornis
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Lumbriconereis unicornis Grube, 1840, Nematonereis grubei Quatrefages, 1866, Nematonereis unicornis Schmarda, 1861, Nematonereis unicornis (Grube, 1840) (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Schmarda, L.K. (1861) Neue wirbellose Thiere beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite Hälfte) Turbellarian, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 164 pp.
- Westheide, W. (1977) Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos XVIII. Nereidae, Eunicidae, Dorvilleidae (Polychaeta). Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens 63: 1-40.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Lysidice unicornis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20139. Accessed 5 November 2026.