Species Dipolydora socialis (Schmarda, 1861)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucodore socialis Schmarda, L.K. 1861. Neue Turbellarian, Rotatorien und Anneliden beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise un die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite halfte). Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann pp. 1-164. [64-65].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Chile
  Comment: Schmarda's collection was in the Zoologishes Institut der Universitat Wien, but many specimens have been destroyed.
• Polydora plena Foster, N.M. 1971. Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 36: 1-183 [24].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Gulf of Mexico.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

E and W coast of North America.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast

Neotropical Region

• Chile
• Falkland Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with clumps of mussels or Posidonia seagrass.

 

Citations

Polydora socialis.
—Blake, J.A. & Kudenov, J.D. 1978. The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 39: 171–280 [248–250, fig. 38d–e].
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [767].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1984. The Spionidae of South Australia (Annelida: Polychaeta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 1–20 [16].
—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 [60].

 

General References

Poore, G.C.B., Rainer, S.F., Spies, R.B. & Ward, E. 1975. The zoobenthos program in Port Phillip Bay, 1969–73. Fisheries and Wildlife Technical Paper, Victoria 7: 1-78 [58] (as Polydora sp.)

 

History of changes

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		12-Feb-2010	(import)