Species Leodice torresiensis (McIntosh, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eunice torresiensis 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 [270-272].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ZK 1885.1.12.193 (4 specimens), Torres Strait, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

• Leodice torresiensis (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, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, subtidal.

Synonymy

Eunice torresiensis.
—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 [256–258, figs 67–70].

History of changes