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Species Palola siciliensis (Grube, 1840)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • Fiji
  • Hawaii

Neotropical Region

  • Chile

Oriental Region

  • Philippines
  • Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

  • France

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Eunice siciliensis.
—Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret [325].
—Claparède, E. 1870. Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Troisième partie. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 20(2): 365–542 [391–394, pl. 22, fig. 5].
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [161–163].
—Gravier, C. 1900. L'Étude des Annélides Polychètes de la Mer Rouge. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4 2: 137–282 [261–264, pl. 13, figs 78–79].
—Crossland, C. 1904. The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901–1902. The Polychaeta, Pt 3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(3): 289–330 [323, pl. 22, fig. 8].
—Fauvel, P. 1911. Annélides polychètes du Golfe Persique receuilis par M.M. Bogoyawlewsky. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 5: 353–439 [406].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [279–281].
—Fauvel, P. 1914. Annélides polychètes non pélagiques provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice (1885–1910). Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Iere Prince souverain de Monaco 46: 1–432 [127].
—Benham, W.B. 1915. Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, Part 1. pp. 171–237 in Dannevig, H.C. (ed.) Biological Results of the Fisheries Expedition F.I.S. Endeavour 1909–14. Sydney Vol. 3. [212–213].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [231–232].
—Fauvel, P. 1919. Annélides polychètes de Madagascar, de Djibouti et du Golfe Persique. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 58: 315–473, pls 15–17 [379].
—Fauvel, P. 1922. Annélides polychètes de l'Archipel Houtman Abrolhos (Australie occidentale) recueilles par M. le Professeur W.G. Dakin, F.L.S. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 34: 487–500 [496].
—Fauvel, P. 1923. Faune de France. Vol 5 Polychètes errantes. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–488 pp. [405–407, fig. 159].
—Augener, H. 1927. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 38. Polychaeten von Südost und Süd-Australien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 83: 71–275 [166–167].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1936. Polychaete worms II. Discovery Reports 12: 59–198 [62].
—Hartman, O. 1944. Polychaetous annelids. Part V. Eunicea. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 10: 1–239 [131].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1981. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-asubtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes im Süden. In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 19–96 pp. [45].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1984. Teil 10. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Albany im Westen und Ceduna im Osten). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 7–62 pp. [32].

Eunice (Palolo) siciliensis.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [382, fig. 17].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [30].
—Poore, G.C.B., Rainer, S.F., Spies, R.B. & Ward, E. 1975. The zoobenthos program in Port Phillip Bay, 1969–73. Fisheries and Wildlife Technical Paper, Victoria 7: 1–78.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1991. Teil 16. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen bis tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Maclean (New South Wales) und Gladstone (Queensland) sowie von Heron Island (Groß Barriere-Riff). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 17–71 pp. [47]

Palolo siciliensis.
—[Rioja, 1962]: 178.
—Fauchald, K. 1970. Polychaetous annelids of the families Eunicidae, Lumbrineridae, Iphitimidae, Arabellidae, Lysaretidae and Dorvilleidae from western Mexico. Allan Hancock Foundation Monographs in Marine Biology 5: 1–335 [68–69].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 07-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 10-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)