Species Malacoceros indicus (Fauvel, 1928)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scolelepis indica Fauvel, P. 1928. Annélides polychètes nouvelles de l'Indie. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 34: 90-96 [93].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Gulf of Manaar, Krusadai Island, Indian Ocean.

Generic Combinations

• Malacoceros indicus (Fauvel, 1928). —
  Pettibone, M.H. 1963. Revision of some genera of polychaete worms of the family Spionidae, including the description of a new species of Scolelepis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76: 89-104 [99]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, seagrass, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal mudflats.

Citations

Scololepis indica.
—Fauvel, P. 1930. Annelida Polychaeta of the Madras Government Museum. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History section. 1(2): 1–72 [35, fig. 7].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1931. Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 1–37 [25].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [313].

Malacoceros indicus.
—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) [477, fig. 18.5].
—Foster, N.M. 1971. Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 36: 1–183 [50–53, figs 93–99].
—Blake, J.A. & Kudenov, J.D. 1978. The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 39: 171–280 [195].
—Ben-Eliahu, M.N., Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1984. Ceratonereis lizardensis n. sp. (Polychaeta; Nereididae) and Malacoceros indicus (Spionidae), from a mangrove habitat at Lizard Island, North Queensland. pp. 91–97 in Hutchings, P.A. (ed). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1983. Sydney : The Linnean Society of New South Wales 483 pp. [96].

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