Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Amphitrite pachyderma Hutchings & Glasby, 1988

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Species Amphitrite pachyderma Hutchings & Glasby, 1988


Compiler and date details

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

  • Type data:
     Holotype AM W5100 (complete, 109 segments, 48 mm long and 7.0 mm wide), 2.4 km south of South West Rocks, Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [20°26'S, 147°05'E].
    Paratype(s) AHF Poly 1464 1 specimen, Moreton Bay, Qld; BMNH ZB 1986.61 1 specimen, Auckland Creek, Qld [23°51'S, 151°16'E]; USNM 99965 1 specimen, Gladstone, Calliope River, Qld [23°51'S, 151°16'E]; AM W7091, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W198246 1 specimen, Calliope River, Gladstone, Qld [23°51'S, 151°16'E]; AM W198247 2 specimens, Calliope River, Gladstone, QLD [23°51'S, 151°16'E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


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

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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Mud bottom, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Also sheltered bays, sandy-mud sediment.

 

Misidentifications

as Amphitrite rubra.
—Rullier, F. 1965. Contribution à la faune des Annélides Polychètes de l'Australie. Papers, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland Papers 2(9): 163–201 [195].
—Stephenson, W., Williams, W.T. & Lance, G.N. 1970. The macrobenthos of Moreton Bay. Ecological Monographs 40: 459–494 [491].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [36] (in part, rest = Longicarpus modestus).
—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 [113].
—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 [16] (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 [96].

 

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 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 06-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)