Species Hololepidella nigropunctata (Horst, 1915)

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Species Hololepidella nigropunctata (Horst, 1915)

Polynoe nigropunctata Horst, R. 1915. On new and little-known species of Polynoinae from the Netherlands' East Indies. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 1: 2-30 [20].
Type data:
Holotype RM 1162, Ambon, East Indies.
Allmaniella marquesensis Monro, C.C.A. 1928. On some Polychaeta of the Family Polynoidae from Tahiti and the Marquesas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 3: 467-473 [469-471].
Type data:
Status unknown, Marquesas Island.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed in Indo-Pacific region.

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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Mozambique

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast
- Coral Sea Islands Territory
Hawaii
Johnston Island
Marshall Islands
Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

Hong Kong
Indonesia
Malaysia

Palaearctic Region

Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Commensal, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

This species seems to have a wide range of echinoderm hosts (mainly ophiuroids), and is also commonly found free living.

Citations

Polynoe nigropunctata.
—Horst, R. 1917. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part II Aphroditidae and Chrysopetalidae. Siboga-Expeditie, Leiden 24b: 1–143 [104, pl. 21]

Hololepidella nigropunctata.
—Day, J.H. 1957. The Polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species from Natal and Mocambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 14: 59–129 [65, fig. 1]
—Pettibone, M.H. 1969. The genera Polyeunoa McIntosh, Hololepidella Willey, and three new genera (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 82: 43–62 [50, fig. 2].
—Gibbs, P.E. 1971. The Polychaete fauna of the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 21(5): 101–211 [120].
—Uchida, H. 1975. Ectocommensal Polynoids (Annelida, Polychaeyta) associated with echinoderms. Bulletin of the Marine Park Research Stations 1(1): 19–30 [20–24, figs 1–3].
—Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1991. Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Island and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. 9–82 in Crosnier, A. Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle A 8: 466 [28–30, fig. 7]

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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