Species Dorvillea similis (Crossland, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Staurocephalus (Dorvillea) similis Crossland, C. 1924. Polychaetea of tropical East Africa, Red Sea and Cape Verde Islands, collected by Cyril Crossland and of the Maldive Archipelago collected by Professor Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.R.S. The Lumbriconereidae and Staurocephalidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1: 1-106 [100-106].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1923.11.5.14-16, Suez.

 

Generic Combinations

• Dorvillea similis (Crossland, 1924). —
  Kohn, A.J. & Loyd, M.C. 1973. Polychaetes of truncated reef limestone substrates on eastern Indian Ocean coral reefs: diversity, abundance, and taxonomy. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie 58(3): 369-400 [381]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef
• Marshall Islands

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
  • Sumatra

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

 

Citations

Dorvillea similis.
—Kohn, A.J. & Loyd, M.C. 1973. Polychaetes of truncated reef limestone substrates on eastern Indian Ocean coral reefs: diversity, abundance, and taxonomy. Internationale Revue der Gesamten Hydrobiologie 58(3): 369–400 [381].
—Jumars, P.A. 1974. A generic revision of the Dorvilleidae (Polychaeta), with six new species from the deep North Pacific. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 54: 101–135 [112].
—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. [106–107].
—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. [67].

 

History of changes

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)