Species Namanereis quadraticeps (Blanchard, 1849)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lycastis quadraticeps Blanchard, E. 1849. Fauna Chilena. Anulares. In P.C. Gay's Historia fisica y politica de Chile. Zoologia. Paris 3: 9-52 [24-25].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM W198509, Chile, Straits of Magellan, just north of Bahia San Gregorio [52°34'S, 70°10'W].
• Namanereis littoralis Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1982. The Nereididae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 106: 93-144 [107-108] [junior secondary homonym of Namanereis littoralis Grube, 1872].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W6004 (complete, 80 segments), North Arm, Port Adelaide, South Australia.
  Paratype(s) AHF Poly 1350 (complete), Towra Point, Botany Bay, NSW; BMNH ZB 1982.4 (complete), Towra Point, Botany Bay, NSW; USNM 071530 (complete), Towra Point, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W6774, Garden Island, Port Adelaide, South Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Namanereis quadraticeps (Blanchard in Gay, 1849). —
  Hartman, O. 1959. Capitellidae and Nereidae (marine annelids) from the Gulf side of Florida, with a review of freshwater Nereidae. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 9: 153-168

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, mangrove, supralittoral.

Citations

Lycastis quadraticeps.
—Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret [500].
—Benham, W.B. 1909. Report on the Polychaeta of the Subantartic Islands of New Zealand. pp. 236–250 in Chilton, C. (ed). The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. Christchurch : Christchurch Philosophical Institute of Canterbury Vol. 1 [242–244, pl. 11, figs 2–10].
—Benham, W.B. 1950. Polychaeta of the Auckland and Campbell Islands. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Cape Expedition Series Bulletin 10: 1–35 [13].
—Augener, H. 1918. Polychaeta. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas 2: 67–625 [214–217, pls 2–3].
—Augener, H. 1924. Papers from Dr. T.H. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 14. Polychaeta I. Polychaeten von den Auckland- und Campbell-Inseln. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 75: 1–115 [39–40].

Namanereis quadraticeps.
—Hartman, O. 1959. Capitellidae and Nereidae (marine annelids) from the Gulf side of Florida, with a review of freshwater Nereidae. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 9: 153–168 [162–163].
—Hartman, O. 1964. Polychaeta Errantia of Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series 3: 1–131 [97, pl. 31, figs 10–12].
—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) [299, 301, fig. 14].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1970. Polychaeta from the Snares Islands, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand Biological Sciences 12: 73–85 [79–80].
—Glasby, C.J. 1999. The Namanereidinae (Polychaeta: Nereididae. Part 1, taxonomy and phylogeny). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 25: 1–129 [100–103].

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