Leodice torresiensis ( McIntosh, 1885 ) 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 : 28-29

Leodice torresiensis ( McIntosh, 1885) n. comb.

Eunice torresiensis McIntosh, 1885: 270 .— Fauchald 1986: 256; 1992: 321. Material examined. Queensland. Thursday Island , 10°35’S, 142°13’E, 5 m depth, AM W.197120 (7) ; Lizard Island , Great Barrier Reef, 14°40’S, 145°28’E, coll. P. Hutchings, Jan 1975, AM W.197148 (2) . New South Wales. Munganno Point, Twofold Bay , 7 m depth, subtidal rock platform, crevice fauna, kelp holdfast, coll. S. Keable & J. van der Velde, 10 Oct 1984, id. P. Hutchings, AM W.201409 (l) .

Remarks. Leodice torresiensis was first described based on six syntypes. However, two of these belong to another species and were assigned to E. tribranchiata in Fauchald (1986) , see Remarks above. Leodice torresiensis has been considered a synonym of L. antennata (e.g., Hartman 1959). The relationship between the two species is discussed) in the Remarks in the L. antennata section.

Type locality. Torres Strait , Australia .