Species Neanthes cricognatha (Ehlers, 1904)

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• Nereis cricognatha Ehlers, E. 1904. Neuseeländische Anneliden. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 3: 1-80 [29-30].

  Type data:

   Holotype No details provided, Chatham Island, New Zealand.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with seagrass, mud flats and sponges in fast-flowing channels intertidal to 140 m depth (most common sublittorally).

Citations

Nereis cricognatha.
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [163–164].
—Augener, H. 1927. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 38. Polychaeten von Südost und Süd-Australien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 83: 71–275 [133].

Neanthes cricognatha.
—Hartman, O. 1954. Australian Nereidae including descriptions of three new species and one genus, together with summaries of previous records and keys to species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 77: 1–41 [14].
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [754].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1982. The Nereididae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 106: 93–144 [110–111].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [37].
—Wilson, R.S. 1984. Neanthes (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from Victoria with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 96: 209–226 [213–214].
—Hadiyanto, H. & Glasby, C.J. 2023. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia.Zootaxa. 5239 (2): 151–203.

Misidentifications

as Neanthes caudata.
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [28].

as Nereis arenaceodentata.
—Benham, W.B. 1916. Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, Part 2. pp. 125–162 in Dannevig, H.C. (ed.) Biological Results of the Fisheries Expedition F.I.S. Endeavour 1909–14. Sydney Vol. 4. [134, pl. 46 figs 1–3].

General References

Glasby, C.J. 2015. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4019(1): 207-239 [218]

Kott, P. 1951. Nereidae and Eunicidae of south Western Australia; also notes on the ecology of Western Australian limestone reefs. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 35: 85-130 [106] (as Nereis (Neanthes) cricognatha)

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