Species Leodice pycnobranchiata (McIntosh, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eunice pycnobranchiata McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 12: 1-554 [294-297].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH ZK 1921.5.1.1997 (76 chaetigers), off East Moncoeur Island, Bass Strait, 69-73 m [39°10'30"S, 146°37'E]; BMNH ZK 1921.5.1.1998 (complete, 63 chaetigers), Twofold Bay, NSW [36°59'S, 150°20'E].

Generic Combinations

• Leodice pycnobranchiata (McIntosh, 1885). —
  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 [28]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf.

Citations

Eunice pynobranchiata.
—Benham, W.B. 1915. Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, Part 1. pp. 171–237 in Dannevig, H.C. (ed.) Biological Results of the Fisheries Expedition F.I.S. Endeavour 1909–14. Sydney Vol. 3. [213–218, pl. 42, figs 79–80].
—Benham, W.B. 1916. Notes on New Zealand Polychaetes. II. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 48: 386–396 [386].
—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 [253–255, figs 56–61].
—Fauchald, K. 1992. A review of the genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1–422 [281–284, fig. 95a–f].

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