Species Amaeana apheles (Hutchings, 1974)

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Species Amaeana apheles (Hutchings, 1974)

Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Lysilla apheles Hutchings, P.A. 1974. Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 98: 175-195 [190-191].
Type data:
Holotype AM W5239 (incomplete specimen, 10 thoracic chaetigers and about 12 abdominal segments, 15 mm in length, 2.5 mm diameter anteriorly), Charlotte Bay, Wallis Lake, NSW.
Paratype(s) AM W5237, W5238; BMNH ZB1973:2 (All paratypes from same locality as the holotype).

Generic Combinations

Amaeana apheles (Hutchings, 1974). —
Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1986. The Polycirrinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 319-350

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

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

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower E coast, NE coast, NW coast
- 200 mile fishing zone: NW oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Also protected marine embayments, often amongst seagrass beds, on continental shelf off NW Australia in sandy and gravelly sediments.

Citations

Lysilla apheles.
—Hutchings, P. 1977. Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidiae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 1–38 [10–11].
—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 [90].

Amaeana apheles.
—Nogueira, J.M.M., Carrerette, O. & Hutchings, P. 2015. Review of Amaeana Hartman, 1959 (Annelida, Terebelliformia, Polycirridae), with descriptions of seven new species. Zootaxa 3994 (1): 001–052 [20].

Misidentifications

as Lysilla sp..
—Stephenson, W., Williams, W.T. & Cook, S.D. 1974. The benthic fauna of soft bottoms, southern Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 73–123.

as Amaeana trilobata.
—Hutchings, P. 1977. Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidiae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 1–38 [9] (in part).

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
17-Oct-2023	ANNELIDA	30-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2014	MOVED
17-Oct-2023		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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