Species Megasyllis corruscans (Haswell, 1886)

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Species Megasyllis corruscans (Haswell, 1886)

Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Syllis corruscans Haswell, W.A. 1886. Observations on some Australian Polychaeta. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 733-756 [734-739].
Type data:
Status unknown, Australia.
Eusyllis brevicirrata Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Bay Survey. 4. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 32: 21-41 [25].

Generic Combinations

Megasyllus corruscans (Haswell, 1886). —
San Martín, G., Hutchings, P. & Aguado, M.T. 2008. Syllinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from Australia. Part. 2. Genera Inermosylis, Megasyllis n. gen., Opisthosyllis, and Trypanosyllis. Zootaxa 1840: 1-53 [6]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

From sediment and under stones.

Citations

Syllis corruscans.
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [208–209].

General References

Haswell, W.A. 1920. Australian Syllidae, Eusyllidae and Autolytidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 90-112 [99-100, pl. 11] (as Syllis (Typosyllis) coruscans)

San Martín, G., Hutchings, P. & Aguado, M.T. 2008. Syllinae (Polychaeta, Syllidae) from Australia. Part. 2. Genera Inermosylis, Megasyllis n. gen., Opisthosyllis, and Trypanosyllis. Zootaxa 1840: 1-53 [8] (Western Australian material previously identified as corruscans here recognised to be Megasyllis inflata (Marenzeller, 1879))

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
17-Oct-2023	15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	07-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
	24-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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