Species Branchiosyllis oculata Ehlers, 1887

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• Branchiosyllis occulata 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 [148].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (Ehlers' collections were removed from the Zoologisches Institut der Universitat Gottingen, some are now in the Zoologisches Museum der Universitat Hamburg and others may be in the Berlin Naturhistorisches Museum. Ehlers did not designate types), Florida Keys, USA.
• Branchiosyllis pacifica australis Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1981. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-asubtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes 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. 78: 19-96 pp. [23].

  Type data:

   Holotype HZM P16474, Tantabiddy Creek, Exmouth, WA.
  Paratype(s) HZM P-16475 1 specimen, Tantabiddy Creek, Exmouth, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

General References

San Martín, G., Hutchings, P. & Aguado, M.T. 2008. Syllinae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Australia. Part 1. Genera Branchiosyllis, Eurysyllis, Karroonsyllis, Parasphaerosyllis, Plakosyllis, Rhopalosyllis, Tetrapalpia n.gen, and Xenosyllis. Records of the Australian Museum 60(2-3): 119-160 [134] (Australian records)

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