Species Eunice aphroditois (Pallas, 1788)
Aphrodite Worm
- Nereis aphroditois Pallas, P.S. 1788. Marina varia nova et rariora. Nova Acta. Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanea 2: 229-249 [229-230].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), Sri Lanka. - Leodice gigantea Savigny, J.-C. 1820. Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description de l'Égypte Histoire Naturelle 1: 1-128 [49-50].
Type data:
Status unknown, India.
Introduction
Zanol et al. (2020) state that this name has been applied to any "very large specimen of Eunice provided that they had dark colored acicula and most chaetigers bearing branchiae with many filaments". As such records of this species from Australia may represent a number of different Eunice species (see also Salazar-Vallejo et al., 2011).
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan in warm waters.
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Down to about 40 m depth.
Citations
Eunice aphroditois.
—Ehlers, E. 1868. Die Borstenwürmer, nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann 1–290 pp. [306–310, pl. 15, figs 23–29].
—Baird, W. 1870. Remarks on several genera of Annelids, belonging to the group Eunicea, with a notice of such species as are contained in the collection of the British Museum, and a description of some others hitherto undescribed. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 10: 341–361 [343].
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Untersuchungen über die Familie Eunicea. Naturw. Schles. Gesells. Berlin 1878: 37–62 [52, 53, 56].
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [146–148]
—McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology 12: 1–554 [282–284, pls 38 & 20a].
—Crossland, C. 1904. The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901–1902. The Polychaeta, Pt 3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(3): 289–330 [288].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [215–220, pl. 7].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1931. Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 1–37 [21].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1936. Polychaete worms II. Discovery Reports 12: 59–198 [58–59].
—Hartman, O. 1944. Polychaetous annelids. Part V. Eunicea. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 10: 1–239 [109–110].
—Fauvel, P. 1943. Annélides polychètes de Californie recueillies par L. Diguet. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 18(1): 1–32 [17].
—Fauchald, K. 1970. Polychaetous annelids of the families Eunicidae, Lumbrineridae, Iphitimidae, Arabellidae, Lysaretidae and Dorvilleidae from western Mexico. Allan Hancock Foundation Monographs in Marine Biology 5: 1–335 [24–25].
—Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1–422 [62–64].
Eunice gigantea.
—Grube, A.-E. 1870. Bemerkungen über Anneliden des Pariser Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 36: 281–352 [297].
—Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret [311].
Eunice (Eriphyle) aphroditois.
—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 [158–166].
General References
Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65-304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Band 4, Lieferung 5. [267-270] (as Eunice (Eriphyle) aphroditois)
Salazar-Vallejo, S.I., Carrera-Parra, L.F. & León-González, J.A. de 2011. Giant Eunicid Polychaetes (Annelida) in shallow tropical and temperate seas. Revista de Biología Tropical 59: 1463-1474
Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [4-5] (as Eunice cf. aphroditois)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 17-Oct-2023 | EUNICIDAE | 07-Aug-2020 | MODIFIED | |
| 17-Oct-2023 | 07-Oct-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 17-Oct-2023 | 10-Sep-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |