• Dendronereides Southern, R. 1921. Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 5: 563-659 [602-603].

  Type species:

   Dendronereides heteropoda Southern, 1921 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: N coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
  • Sumatra

Citations

Dendronereides.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [302].
—Hutchings, P. & Reid, A. 1990. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia — Gymnonereidinae sensu Fitzhugh, 1987: Australonereis, Ceratocephale, Dendronereides, Gymnonereis, Nicon, Olganereis and Websterinereis. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 69–100 [78].

History of changes

• Dendronereides heteropoda Southern, R. 1921. Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 5: 563-659 [603-607].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, India.

Distribution

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: N coast

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
  • Sumatra

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, mangrove.

Extra Ecological Information

Mud flats seaward of mangroves.

Misidentifications

as Dendronereides heteropoda.
—[Hanley, 1985]: 244 (in part).

Citations

Dendronereides heteropoda.
—Hutchings, P. & Reid, A. 1990. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia — Gymnonereidinae sensu Fitzhugh, 1987: Australonereis, Ceratocephale, Dendronereides, Gymnonereis, Nicon, Olganereis and Websterinereis. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 69–100 [78–80, fig. 5].

History of changes

• Dendronereides zululandica Day, J.H. 1951. The polychaete fauna of South Africa. The intertidal and estuarine Polychaeta of the Natal and Mosambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 12: 1-67 [30-32].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 5.5.1/28, St Lucia Estuary, Zululand, South Africa.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: N coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, mangrove.

Extra Ecological Information

On mud flats in front of mangroves.

Citations

Dendronereides zululandica.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [302–304, fig. 14.3].
—Hutchings, P. & Reid, A. 1990. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia — Gymnonereidinae sensu Fitzhugh, 1987: Australonereis, Ceratocephale, Dendronereides, Gymnonereis, Nicon, Olganereis and Websterinereis. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 69–100 [80, fig. 5b].

Misidentifications

as Dendronereides zululandica.
—[Hanley, 1985]: 244 (in part).

History of changes