Strawberry Worm

The wide distribution of this species has recently been challenged by revealing misidentifications of specimens from habitats far from the type locality in the Northern Atlantic. One such example of a separate species is Eupolymnia magnifica (Webster, 1884) from the Grand Caribbean region shown by Londoño-Mesa (2009).

The original description of this species from the coast of Devon, England was given by Montagu (1818, page 343, plate 12, figure 2). In the review of Terebellidae from the Grand Caribbean Region, Londoño-Mesa (2009, pages 28-31, figures 7D-K) correct records of Eupolymnia nebulosa from this region (e.g. Londoño-Mesa & Carrera-Parra 2005) and assign these to Eupolymnia magnifica (Webster, 1884).