• Ephesiella Chamberlin, R.V. 1919. Albatross Polychaeta (Rep. Sci. Res. Exp. Albatross). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 48: 1-514 [182] [nom. nov. for Hypephesia Perrier, 1897].
• Hypephesia Perrier, E. 1897. Philocrinida. p. 1633 in Perrier, E. (ed.). Traité de Zoologie. Paris : Masson et Cie Vol. fasc. 4 2138 pp. [1625] [junior homonym].

  Type species:

   Sphaerodorum abyssorum Hansen, 1878 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

History of changes

• Ephesiella australiensis Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1982. Teil 8. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-antiborealen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Cervantes im Norden und Cape Naturaliste 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. 51-118 pp. [80-81].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH P-16773 (18 chaetigers), Cervantes, Western Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal.

General References

Capa, M. & Bakken, T. 2015. Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4000(2): 227-267 [231]

History of changes