Species Megasyllis inflata (Marenzeller, 1879)

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Species Megasyllis inflata (Marenzeller, 1879)

Compiler and date details

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

Syllis kinbergiana Haswell, W.A. 1886. Observations on some Australian Polychaeta. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 733-756 [739-741].
Type data:
Status unknown, Australia.
Syllis inflata Marenzeller, E. von 1879. Südjapanische Anneliden I. (Amphinomea, Aphroditea, Lycoridea, Phyllodocea, Hesionea, Syllidea, Eunicea, Glycerea, Sternaspidea, Chaetopterea, Cirratulea, Amphictenea). Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 41: 109-154 [131].
Type data:
Status unknown, southern Japan.

Generic Combinations

Megasyllis inflata (Marenzeller, 1879). —
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 [12]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, 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

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast

Palaearctic Region

Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Common on shoreline amongst mussels and ascidians.

Citations

Syllis (Typosyllis) kinbergiana.
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [197–200, pl. 3, fig. 38]
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [194–195].
—Haswell, W.A. 1920. Australian Syllidae, Eusyllidae and Autolytidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 90–112 [98–99, pls 11–12].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [27].

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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