Species Lysilla bilobata Hutchings & Glasby, 1986

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lysilla bilobata Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1986. The Polycirrinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 319-350 [325-327].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W7586 (posteriorly incomplete, about 40 segments), Woolooware Bay, Georges River, NSW [33°05'S, 151°06'E].
  Paratype(s) BMNH ZB 1985.224 1 specimen, Wallis Lake, NSW [33°05'S 151°06'E]; AHF Poly 1453 1 specimen, Wallis Lake, NSW [32°17'S 152°29'E]; USNM 098819 1 specimen, Avoca Reef, NSW [33°28'S 151°26'E]; AM W199531 2 specimens, Woolooware Bay, Georges River, NSW [32°17'S 152°29'E]; AM WI95770 3 specimens, Botany Bay, NSW [33°06'S 150°59'E]; AM WI8947 7 specimens, Botany Bay, NSW [33°06'S 150°59'E]; AM WI95466 1 specimen, Botany Bay, NSW [33°06'S 150°59'E]; AM WI3973 1 specimen, Botany Bay, NSW [33°06'S 150°59'E]; AM WI2429 2 specimens, Port Stephens, NSW [32°37'S 152°04'E].
• Lysilla pacifica Hutchings, P.A. 1974. Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 98: 175-195 [191] (in part) (Not Hessle).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NW oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, mud bottom, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with seagrasses in shallow waters.

 

Citations

Lysilla bilobata.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1990. Additional new species of the family Terebellidae (Polychaeta) from Western Australia, with a key to all described species of the region. pp. 251–289 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Western Australia Museum, Perth. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1 [256].

Misidentifications

as Lysilla pacifica.
—Hutchings, P.A. 1974. Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 98: 175–195 [191] (in part).
—Hutchings, P. 1977. Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidiae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 1–38 [11].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2014	MOVED
17-Oct-2023		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)