Species Marphysa mullawa Hutchings & Karageorgopoulos, 2003

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• Marphysa mullawa Hutchings, P.A. & Karageorgopoulos, P. 2003. Designation of a neotype of Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1813) and a description of a new species of Marphysa from eastern Australia. Hydrobiology 496: 87-94 [90-93].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W27393 1 specimen, Fisherman's Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [27°25'S, 153°20'E].
  Paratype(s) AM W27394 1 specimen, Fisherman's Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [27°25'S, 153°20'E]; AM W27395 1 specimen, Fisherman's Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [27°25'S, 153°20'E]; NMV F89432 1 specimen, Fisherman's Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [27°25'S, 153°20'E]; QM G218738 1 specimen, Fisherman's Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [27°25'S, 153°20'E].
• Marphysa sanguinea Rullier, F. 1965. Contribution à la faune des Annélides Polychètes de l'Australie. Papers of the Department of Zoology University of Queensland 2(9): 163-201 [184-185].
• Marphysa sp. 1. Fauchald, K., Taylor, J. & Johnson, R. 2003. Eunicidae (Polychaeta) — A DELTA'database of genera, and Australian species. In Wilson, R.S., P.A. Hutchings & C.J. Glasby, Polychaetes: Interactive Identification and Information Retrieval. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. pp.

Introduction

Zanol et al. (2016) provide an integrative description of the species.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

General References

Montagu, G. 1815. Descriptions of several new or rare animals principally marine, found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 18-21 (Marphysa sanguinea)

Zanol, J., da Silva, T. dos S.C. & Hutchings, P. 2016. Marphysa (Eunicidae, polychaete, Annelida) species of the Sanguinea group from Australia, with comments on pseudo-cryptic species. Invertebrate Biology 135(4): 328-344 [337, Figs. 4, 5]

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