Species Arabella iricolor (Montagu, 1804)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nereis iricolor Montagu, G. 1804. Descriptions of several marine animals found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 7: 80-84 [82].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Devon, England.
• Aracoda multidentata Ehlers, E. 1887. Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L.F. Pourtales, during the years 1868–1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878–79), in the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake, Lieut.-Com. C.D. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 15: 1-335 [112].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, off Florida, USA.
• Lumbriconereis opalina Verrill, A.E. 1873. Report upon the invertebrate animals of Vineyard Sound and the adjacent waters, with an account of the physical characters of the region. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 1871–72: 295-778 [594].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New England, USA.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • Florida

Palaearctic Region

• United Kingdom
  • England

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, estuary, seagrass, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Seagrass beds in muddy sand, down to 500 m depth.

 

Citations

Arabella iricolor.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 75–218 pp. [129–130].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1987. Teil 13. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Küste von Victoria (Australien) (zwischen Warrnambool im Westen und Port Welshpool im Osten). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 27–66 pp. [53].

Arabella iricolor iricolor.
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [32].
—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 [49].

Aracoda multidentata.
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [291–293].

Lumbriconereis opalina (as Nothria opalina).
—Verrill, A.E. 1874. Report on the dredgings in the region of Georges Banks, in 1872. In Smith, S.I. & Harger, O. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science 3: 1–57 [26].

Arabella opalina.
—Webster, H.E. 1884. Annelida from Bermuda. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 25: 305–327 [321].
—Verrill, A.E. 1881. New England Annelida. Pt. 1. Historical sketch, with annotated list of the species hitherto recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science 4: 285–324 [291].
—Webster, H.E. & Benedict, J.E. 1884. The Annelida Chaetopoda from Provincetown and Wellfleet, Mass. United States Fisheries and Wildlife Service Biological Report 1881: 699–747 [721].

 

General References

Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1-458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459-878. [446, fig. 17] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Arabella iricolor iricolor)

 

History of changes

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