Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Dorvillea australiensis (McIntosh, 1885)

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Species Dorvillea australiensis (McIntosh, 1885)

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
  • Hawaii
  • New Zealand
    • North Island
    • South Island

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Staurocephalus australiensis.
—Treadwell, A.L. 1906. Polychaetous annelids of the Hawaiin Islands, collected by the steamer "Albatross" in 1902. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Washington 23: 1145–1181 [1173, figs 64–66]

Stauronereis australiensis.
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [240].
—Augener, H. 1927. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 38. Polychaeten von Südost und Süd-Australien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 83: 71–275 [192–193].

Dorvillea australiensis.
—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. 1980. Teil 4. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Port Samson im Norden und Exmouth 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. 41–110 pp. [66].
—Glasby, C.J. 1984. A review of Dorvillea and Schistomeringos (Annelida: Polychaeta) chiefly from southern and eastern Australia with a description of a new species of Schistomeringos. pp. 98–111 in Hutchings, P.A. (ed). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1983. Sydney : The Linnean Society of New South Wales 483 pp. [104–106, fig. 4].

Misidentifications

as Stauronereis australis.
—Ehlers, E. 1904. Neuseeländische Anneliden. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 3: 1–80 [37].
—Ehlers, E. 1907. Neuseeländische Anneliden. II. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 5: 1–31 [13].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 ANNELIDA 09-Dec-2024 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 07-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 09-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)