Species Leodice laticeps (Ehlers, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eunice laticeps Ehlers, E. 1868. Die Borstenwürmer, nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann 290 pp. [312] [nom. nov. for Eunice tentaculata Quatrefages, 1865].
• Eunice tentaculata Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [317-318] [junior homonym, see Fauchald, K. 1986. Review of the types and key to the species of Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) from the Australian region. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 241–262 (251–252)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP A.1(R.)-1868-no.52b (incomplete, in 3 fragments), Western Port, Victoria, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Fauchald, K. 1986. Review of the types and key to the species of Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) from the Australian region. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 241-262.

Generic Combinations

• Leodice laticeps (Ehlers, 1868). —
  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 [27]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Citations

Eunice laticeps.
—Fauchald, K. 1986. Review of the types and key to the species of Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) from the Australian region. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 241–262 [251–252, figs 46–50].
—Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1–422 [188–190, fig. 62].

Eunice tentaculata.
—Grube, A.-E. 1870. Bemerkungen über Anneliden des Pariser Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 36: 281–352 [291].
—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 [345].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [275–278].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [209–215, fig. 17].
—Fauvel, P. 1922. Annélides polychètes de l'Archipel Houtman Abrolhos (Australie occidentale) recueilles par M. le Professeur W.G. Dakin, F.L.S. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 34: 487–500 [495].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [30].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland 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. 75–218 pp. [126–127].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1982. Teil 8. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-antiborealen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Cervantes im Norden und Cape Naturaliste 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. 51–118 pp. [82].
—Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1–422 [314–316, fig. 107a–d].

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