Species Lysilla pacifica Hessle, 1917

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• Lysilla pacifica Hessle, C. 1917. Zur Kenntnis der terebellomorphen Polychaeten. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsala 5: 39-258 [232-233].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZIUU nr 181a-c, Misaki, Japan.
• Lysilla ubianensis Caullery, M. 1944. Polychètes sedentaire de l'Expedition du SIBOGA: Ariciidae, Spionidae, Chaetopteridae, Chloraemidae, Opheliidae, Oweniidae, Sabellaridae, Sternaspidae, Amphictenidae, Ampharetidae, Terebellidae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 24(2): 1-204 [197].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMA V.pol 1537 (posteriorly incomplete, about 26 segments), Philippines.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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.

Extra Ecological Information

Also coastal lagoons and bays, associated with marine angiosperms Zostera, Posidonia and Halophila.

Citations

Lysilla pacifica.
—Imajima, M. & Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 26: 1–452 [348].
—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.A. & Recher, H.F. 1974. The fauna of Careel Bay with comments on the eceology of mangrove and seagrass communities. Australian Zoologist 18(2): 99–128 [105, 120].
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [786].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1984. Teil 10. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Albany im Westen und Ceduna im Osten). 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. 7–62 pp. [46].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [90–91].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1985. Teil 11. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Port Lincoln im Westen und Port Augusta im Osten). 61–99 in Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 82 [86].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1986. The Polycirrinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 319–350 [330, fig. 5f–i, 12c].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1991. Teil 16. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen bis tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Maclean (New South Wales) und Gladstone (Queensland) sowie von Heron Island (Groß Barriere-Riff). 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. 17–71 pp. [56].
—Nogueira, J.M.M., Hutchings, P. & Carrerette, O. 2015. Polycirridae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4019 (1): 437–483 [445].

Lysilla ubianensis.
—Caullery, M. 1944. Polychètes sedentaire de l'Expedition du SIBOGA: Ariciidae, Spionidae, Chaetopteridae, Chloraemidae, Opheliidae, Oweniidae, Sabellaridae, Sternaspidae, Amphictenidae, Ampharetidae, Terebellidae. Siboga-Expeditie, Leiden 24(2): 1–204 [197, fig. 156a–e].
—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 [114].
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [721, fig. 36.3i–j].

Misidentifications

as ?Polycirrus boholensis.
—Rullier, F. 1965. Contribution à la faune des Annélides Polychètes de l'Australie. Papers, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland Papers 2(9): 163–201 [196] (see Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1986. The Polycirrinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 319–350).

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