Species Alitta succinea (Leuckart, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nereis succinea Leuckart, R. 1847. Verzeichniss der zur Fauna Helgoland's gehörenden wirbellosen Seethiere. pp. 136-168 in Frey, H. & Leuckart, R. Beiträge zur Kenntniss wirbelloser Thiere. Braunschweig. [154].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, North Sea.
• Nereis (Neanthes) oxypoda Marenzeller, E. von 1879. Südjapanische Anneliden I. (Amphinomea, Aphroditea, Lycoridea, Phyllodocea, Hesionea, Syllidea, Eunicea, Glycerea, Sternaspidea, Chaetopterea, Cirratulea, Amphictenea). Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 41: 109-154 [120-122].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, southern Japan.
• Nectoneanthes alatopalpis Wesenberg-Lund, E. 1949. Polychaetes of the Iranian Gulf. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran 4(4): 247-400 [281-283].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Gulf of Iran.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from Northern Hemisphere.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast

Palaearctic Region

• Iran
• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary.

Extra Ecological Information

Restricted to estuaries in Australia.

 

Citations

Nereis (Neanthes) succinea.
—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) [321].

Neanthes succinea.
—Wilson, R.S. 1984. Neanthes (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from Victoria with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 96: 209–226 [218–221, fig. 4].
—Wilson, R.S. 1988. Synonymy of the genus Nectoneanthes Imajima, 1972, with Neanthes Kinberg, 1866 (Polychaeta: Nereididae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 4–10 [5–7].
—Cohen, B.F., McArthur, M.A. & Parry, G.D. 2001. Exotic Marine Pests in the Port of Melbourne, Victoria. Marine and Freshwater Resources Institute, Report No.25. 1–69 pp. [44]

Nereis oxypoda.
—Izuka, A. 1912. The Errantia Polychaeta of Japan. Tokyo Journal of Collective Science 30: 1–262 [171, pl. 18, figs 8–11].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1934. On a collection of Polychaeta from the coast of China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 13: 353–380 [362–363].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1938. On a small collection of Polychaeta from Swan River, Western Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 2: 614–624 [614–617, figs 1–5].
—Ibanez, M. 1972. Notés sobre algunea especies de Annelido Poliquetos neuvas para las costas de Espana, con especial referencia a Nereis (Neanthes) oxypoda Marenzeller y Onuphis (Nothria) geophiliformis Moore. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 7: 23–31 [24–26, fig. 1].

Nereis alatopalpis.
Wu, B.-L. Sun, R. & Deijang, Y. 1981. The Nereidae (Polychaetous annelids) of the Chinese Coast. Beijing : Chinese Ocean Press 1–234 pp. [152–153].
—[Wu, Sun & Deiyang, 1985]: 168–170.

Misidentifications

as Nereis oxypoda.
—Monro, C.C.A. 1934. On a collection of Polychaeta from the coast of China. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 13: 353–380 [362] (in part).
—Monro, C.C.A. 1938. On a small collection of Polychaeta from Swan River, Western Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 2: 614–624 [614–617, figs 1–5].

as Neanthes oxpoda.
Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [37–39, fig. 12].

 

General References

Pettibone, M.H. 1963. Marine Polychaete worms of the New England Region. 1. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 227: 1-356 [165, figs 44-45] (as Nereis (Neanthes) succinea)

Villalobos-Guerrero, T.F. & Carrera-Parra, L.F. 2015. Redescription of Alitta succinea (Leuckart, 1847) and reinstatement of A. acutifolia (Ehlers, 1901) n. comb. based upon morphological and molecular data (Polychaeta: Nereididae). Zootaxa 3919(1): 157–178

 

History of changes

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