Eunice is a genus in the Eunicidae

Eunicidae

Eunicidae is a family of polychaetes. Many eunicids reach a considerable size. Their jaws are known from Ordovician sediments. They live throughout the seas; a few species are parasitic....

 family of worms. They grow to a length of between 0-.5 to 1 metre. Their bodies have multiple segments. They have two eyes and five tentacle

Tentacle

A tentacle or bothrium is one of usually two or more elongated flexible organs present in animals, especially invertebrates. The term may also refer to the hairs of the leaves of some insectivorous plants. Usually, tentacles are used for feeding, feeling and grasping. Anatomically, they work like...

s. They have well-developed sense organs and relatively large brains. Their color is dark purple-brown to red-brown with a white ring at the fourth segment. They are found in ocean

Ocean

An ocean is a major body of saline water, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.More than half of this area is over 3,000...

s and sea

Sea

A sea generally refers to a large body of salt water, but the term is used in other contexts as well. Most commonly, it means a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, and is commonly used as a synonym for ocean...

s around the world. They have an evertible proboscis with distinctive mouthparts, some of which comprise two rows of maxilliary plates in a radula-like fashion.

Species

• Eunice afra Peters, 1854
• Eunice antennata (Savigny, 1820)
• Eunice aphroditois Pallas, 1788, Bobbit Worm
• Eunice australis Quatrefagus, 1865
• Eunice bilobata Treadwell, 1906
• Eunice borneensis (Grube, 1878)
• Eunice denticulata
• Eunice filamentosa
• Eunice fuscafasciata (Treadwell, 1922)
• Eunice norvegica (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Eunice pennata (O.F. Müller, 1776)
• Eunice perimensis Gravier, 1901
• Eunice perrieri Gravier, 1900
• Eunice petersi Fauchald, 1992
• Eunice philippinensis Hartmann-Schröder & Zibrowius, 1998
• Eunice philocorallia Buchanan, 1893
• Eunice plessisi Rullier, 1972
• Eunice plicata Baird, 1869
• Eunice polybranchia (Verrill, 1880)
• Eunice prayensis Kinberg, 1865
• Eunice procera Grube, 1866
• Eunice profunda Miura, 1987
• Eunice tovarae Carrera-Parra & Salazar-Vallejo, 2011
• Eunice vittata (Delle Chiaje, 1828)