Species Neodexiospira brasiliensis (Grube, 1872)

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• Spirorbis brasiliensis Grube, A.-E. 1872. Uebersicht der bisher beschriebenen Terebellen und uber T. anguicomus und einige Serpulacean. Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Vaterländische Kultur, Breslau 49: 48-53 [53].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB Q.5391, Florianopolis (= Desterro), Brazil.

  Type locality references:

  Knight-Jones, P., Knight-Jones, E.W. & Kawahara, T. 1975. A review of the genus Janua, including Dexiospira (Polychaeta: Spirorbinae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 56: 91-129 [94].
• Spirorbis bellulus Bush, K.J. 1905. Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. Harriman Alaska Expedition, New York 12: 169-355 [250].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Honshu, Japan.
• Dexiospira oshoroensis Uchida, H. 1971. Spirorbinae (Polychaeta, Serpulidae) from Hokkaido I. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series VI. Zoology 17(4): 628-662 [634-638].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Oshoro, Japan.
• Janua (Fauveldora) anticorrugata Vine, P.J. 1972. Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Red Sea, including descriptions of a new genus and four new species. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 51: 177-201 [192-193].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ZB 1971.95a, Port Sudan, Red Sea.
  Paratype(s) BMNH ZB 1971.96.

 

Generic Combinations

• Neodexiospira brasiliensis (Grube, 1872).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in warm and temperate waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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
• Sudan

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, Tas. Coast
• Marshall Islands
• New Zealand
  • North Island

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • California
  • Mississippi

Neotropical Region

• Brazil

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Seagrass, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually found on algae, or blades of seagrass.

 

Citations

Janua (Dexiospira) brasiliensis.
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [791].
—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 [107].

 

General References

Hutchings, P.A. & Recher, H.F. 1974. The fauna of Careel Bay with comments on the eceology of mangrove and seagrass communities. The Australian Zoologist 18(2): 99-128 [105] (as Spirorbis sp.)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		09-Aug-2010	MOVED
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