Species Platynereis australis (Schmarda, 1861)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heteronereis australis Schmarda, L.K. 1861. Neue Turbellarian, Rotatorien und Anneliden beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise un die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite halfte). Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann pp. 1-164. [101-102].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Platynereis magalhaensis Kinberg, J.G.H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 22(2): 167-179 [177].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Straits of Magellan, Chile.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks and algal holdfasts, down to 90 m depth.

Citations

Platynereis magalhaensis.
—Fauvel, P. 1916. Annélides polychètes des Iles Falkland recueillies par M. Rupert Vallentin Esqre (1902–1910). Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 55: 417–482 [434, pl. 8, figs 21–22].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [208].
—Hartman, O. 1954. Australian Nereidae including descriptions of three new species and one genus, together with summaries of previous records and keys to species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 77: 1–41 [36].


Platynereis australis.
—Knox, G.A. 1951. The polychaetous annelids of Banks Peninsula Part 1. Nereidae. Records of the Canterbury Museum 5: 213–229 [223–225, pl. 49].
—Hartman, O. 1954. Australian Nereidae including descriptions of three new species and one genus, together with summaries of previous records and keys to species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 77: 1–41 [36].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1962. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der chilenischen Pazifikküste und der argentischen Küste Südpatagoniens unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 60: 1–270 [108].
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [305, fig. 14].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [28].
—Imajima, M. 1972. Review of the annelid worms of the family Nereidae of Japan, with description of five new species or subspecies. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 15: 37–153 [82–85, figs 21–22].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1981. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-asubtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes 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. 19–96 pp. [43].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Reid, A. 1991. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia — Leonnates, Platynereis and Solomonereis. Records of the Australian Museum 43: 47–62 [54–55].
—Hadiyanto, H. & Glasby, C.J. 2023. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia. Zootaxa 5239 (2): 151–203.

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