Species Cirriformia filigera (Delle Chiaje, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cirratulus australis Stimpson, W. 1855. Description of new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 385-395 [391-392].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
• Lumbricus filigerus Delle Chiaje, S. 1828. Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli., 3. Napoli : Società tipografica 232 pp.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), 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, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast

Palaearctic Region

• Italy

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 12 m depth.

 

Citations

Cirriformia filigera.
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [33].
—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. [55–56].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1990. Teil 15. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen und tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) im Süden und Gladstone (Queensland) im Norden. 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. 41–87 pp. [72].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1991. Teil 16. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen bis tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Maclean (New South Wales) und Gladstone (Queensland) sowie von Heron Island (Groß Barriere-Riff). 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. 17–71 pp. [52].

Cirratulus australis.
—Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret.

Misidentifications

as Cirratulus (Timarete) anchylochaeta.
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 (in part).

 

General References

Hutchings, P.A. & Johnson, R.T. 2011. Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1834, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd (this species is widely reported from Australian shores and purportedly occurs worldwide, however, until a taxonomic revision is done the Australian records may turn out to be misidentifications)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)