Leodice metatropos ( Hanley, 1986 ) Zanol & Hutchings & Fauchald, 2020

Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat A. & Fauchald, Kristian, 2020, Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion, Zootaxa 4748 (1), pp. 1-43 : 28

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B9EC373A-DF9B-47E2-916C-CF211D8F0727
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3704667
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C0D3355-C00D-D138-33BC-FF27FDCD9AB6
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Leodice metatropos ( Hanley, 1986 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Leodice metatropos ( Hanley, 1986) View in CoL n. comb.

Eunice metatropos Hanley, 1986: 215–221 View in CoL , figs. 1–3.

Material examined. Western Australia. N.W. Shelf, 80 m, trawled specimens, coll. Observer crew on Chick Fa No. l, id. Russell Hanley, 1986 , AM W.201437 (1, PARATYPE) , AM W.201438 (1, PARATYPE) , USNM # 101342 (1, PARATYPE) , USNM # 101343 (1, PARATYPE) .

Remarks. This species has paired MxIII, a condition present in few species of eunicids (see Fauchald, 1992 for a discussion). All four paratypes examined are in very poor condition

Type locality. Western Australia .