Genus Glycera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818

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• Glycera Savigny, J.-C. in Lamarck, J.P. de 1818. Histoire Naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, presentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédes d'une I. Paris : Déterville Vol. 5 pp. 1-612. [315].

  Type species:

   Glycera unicornis Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 by monotypy.
• Euglycera Verrill, A.E. 1881. New England Annelida. Pt. 1. Historical sketch, with annotated list of the species hitherto recorded. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 4: 285-324 [296].
• Hamiglycera Ehlers, E. 1908. Die bodensässigen Anneliden aus den Sammlungen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898–1899 16(1): 1-168 [105].
• Rhynchobolus Claparède, E. 1868. Les Annélides Chétopodes du Golfe de Naples. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 19: 313-584, 16 pls [492].
• Telake Chamberlin, R.V. 1919. Albatross Polychaeta (Rep. Sci. Res. Exp. Albatross). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 48: 1-514 [345].
• Glyceres Bianconi, J.J. 1862. Specimina Zoologica Mosambicana. Fasciculus XIII. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna 2 1: 469-477 [477].
• Paranereites Eisenack, A. 1939. Einige neue Annelidnreste aus dem Silur and dem Jura des Baltikums. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 15(3): 153-176 [169].

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

GLYCERIDAE: Glycera americana Leidy, 1855 [Glycera americana was described by Leidy (1855), from New Jersey & Rhode Island, USA. This species does not occur in Australia, although in literature it has been widely reported from Australia. Böggemann, 2002 (Böggemann 2002) reidentified many Australian specimens of Glycera americana as other species] — Hutchings, P.A. & Johnson, R.T. 2011. Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1834, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Comoros Islands
• Djibouti
• Madagascar
• Mozambique
• Seychelles
• South Africa

Antarctic Region

• Antarctica

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
• Marshall Islands
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

• Canada
  • British Columbia
  • New Brunswick
  • Newfoundland
  • Nova Scotia
• Greenland
• Mexico
• United States of America
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • California
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • North Carolina
  • Oregon
  • South Carolina
  • Texas
  • Virginia
  • Washington

Neotropical Region

• Antigua and Barbados
• Argentina
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Bermuda
• Brazil
• Cayman Islands
• Chile
  • Valparaiso
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Panama
• Panama Canal Zone
• Peru
• Puerto Rico

Oriental Region

• Burma (= Myanmar)
• China (People's Republic)
  • Hainan
• India
• Indonesia
• Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
• Maldives
• Pakistan
• Philippines
  • Mindanao
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Thailand

Palaearctic Region

• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Iceland
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Kuwait
• Norway
• Russia
  • Kamchatka Oblast
• Saudi Arabia
• Spain
• United Kingdom
  • England
  • Scotland

Citations

Glycera.
—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 [181].
—Knox, G.A. 1960. The polychaetous annelids of New Zealand Part I. Glyceridae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 7: 219–231 [220–221].

 

General References

Böggemann, M. 2002. Revision of the Glyceridae Grube 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 555: 1-249

Leidy, J. 1855. Contributions towards a knowledge of the marine invertebrates of the coast of Rhode Island and New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 3: 135-158

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	ANNELIDA	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	POLYCHAETA Claparède, 1864	03-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	PHYLLODOCIDA	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
		17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED