Species Amaeana trilobata (Sars, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polycirrus trilobatus Sars, M. 1863. Geologiske og zoologiske Iagttabelse, anstillede paa en Reise i en Deelaf Trondhjems Stift i Sommerren 1862. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, Oslo 12: 253-340 [305].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, UZMO C3207a,b C3208, Christiansund, Norway.

 

Generic Combinations

• Amaeana trilobata (Sars, 1863). —
  Day, J.H. 1961. The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44: 463-560 [533-534]
  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] (combination cited)
• Amaea trilobata (Sars, 1863). —
  Malmgren, A.J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 22: 355-410 [392]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean Sea, cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NW oceanic
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • North Carolina

Palaearctic Region

• Japan
• Norway

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In bays and marine areas of estuaries, often associated with seagrasses in shallow areas.

 

Citations

Amaea trilobata.
—Fauvel, P. 1927. Faune de France Vol. 16 Polychètes sedentaires. Addenda aux Errantes, Archiannélides, Myzostomaires. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–494 pp. [285–286, fig. 99a–e].

Amaeana trilobata.
—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) [718–719, fig. 36.3e–h].
—Day, J.H. 1973. New polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Report NMFS CIRC 375. Seattle : National Marine Fisheries Sevice Vol. xiii 1–140 pp. [122, fig. 16d–f].
—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).
—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].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1986. The Polycirrinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 319–350 [321–323, fig. 1f–i, 12a].

MoV species no

MoV 641

 

General References

Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1986. The Polycirrinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 319-350 (examination of the type material of this species confirmed the identity of the Australian specimens as Amaeana trilobata)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2014	MOVED
17-Oct-2023		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)