Species Harmothoe praeclara (Haswell, 1883)

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Species Harmothoe praeclara (Haswell, 1883)

Antinoe praeclara Haswell, W.A. 1883. A monograph of the Australian Aphroditea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 250-298 [290-291].
Type data:
Lectotype AM G11248 [= W21806], Port Jackson, New South Wales.
Harmothoe terminoculata Monro, C.C.A. 1924. On the polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Alert', 1881–1882. Families Polynoidae, Sigalionidae, and Eunicidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 36: 37-64 [42-43].
Type data:
Status unknown, Port Jackson, New South Wales.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast
New Zealand
- South Island

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, mud bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Down to 90 m depth in sand and mud.

Citations

Harmothoe praeclara.
—Augener, H. 1924. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 18. Polychaeta II. Polychäten von Neuseeland I: Errantia. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 75: 241–441 [285–287].
—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 [107].
—Day, J.H. 1975. On a collection of Polychaeta from intertidal and shallow reefs near Perth, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 167–208 [184].
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [746].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [15].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1989. Teil 14. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen und subtropisch-tropischen Küste Südost-Australiens zwischen Lakes Entrance (Victoria) im Süden und Maclean (New South Wales) 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. 11–63 pp. [12].
—Hanley, J.R. 1993. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. pp. 305–320 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1, 2 634 pp. [310–313, fig. 2].

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		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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