Species Aphrodita australis Baird, 1865

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aphrodita australis Baird, W. 1865. Contributions towards a monograph of the species of Annelids belonging to the Aphroditacea, containing a list of the known species and a description of some new species contained in the British Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 8: 172-202 [176-177].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1865:12:23.2 (42 segments), Port Lincoln, South Australia.
• Aphrodita haswelli Johnston, T.H. 1909. On a new species of Aphrodita. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 241-246 [241-245].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G11394, Nelson Bay, Port Stephens, New South Wales.
• Aphrodita paleacea Peters, W.C.H. 1864. Über eine neue Annelide, Aphrodite paleacea, aus Adelaide. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1863: 361-371 [369-371].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 331 (dehydrated), Gawler Bay, South Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hutchings, P. & McRae, J. 1993. The Aphroditidae (Polychaeta) from Australia, together with a redescription of the Aphroditidae collected during the Siboga Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 45: 279-363 [290] (synonymised A. australis with A. paleacea after having examined the dehydrated type of A. paleacae and, although Peters' name has priority, could find no evidence of the name having ever been used apart from the original whereas A. australis has been used widely in New Zealand and Australia; suggest that A. australis be retained under Art. 79c, ICZN (1985))

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Palaearctic Region

• Japan
• Russia

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, mud bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Also found amongst algae and mussels.

 

Citations

Aphrodita australis.
—Haswell, W.A. 1883. A monograph of the Australian Aphroditea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 250–298 [270–271].
—McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology 12: 1–554 [34–36, pls 6–7].
—Moore, J.P. 1903. Polychaeta from the coastal slope of Japan and from Kamchatka and Bering Sea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 55: 401–490 [423].
—Izuka, A. 1912. The Errantia Polychaeta of Japan. Tokyo Journal of Collective Science 30: 1–262 [76, pl. 9].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [165–167, fig. 1].
—Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A: 1–37 [4].
—Hutchings, P. & McRae, J. 1993. The Aphroditidae (Polychaeta) from Australia, together with a redescription of the Aphroditidae collected during the Siboga Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 45: 279–363 [287–290, figs 2–3].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		07-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		07-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)