Genus Nephtys Cuvier, 1817

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• Nephtys Cuvier, G. 1817. Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Les Zoophytes, les Tables, et les Planches. Paris : Déterville Vol. 4 255 pp. [173 (Corrections et Additions)].

  Type species:

   Nephtys hombergii Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 by original designation.
• Aonis Savigny, J.-C. in Lamarck, J.P. de 1818. Histoire Naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, presentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédes d'une I. Paris : Déterville Vol. 5 pp. 1-612. [374].

  Type species:

   Nereis caeca Fabricius, 1818 by subsequent designation, see Hartman, O. 1950. Goniadidae, Glyceridae and Nephtyidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 15: 1-181 [89].
• Diplobranchus Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [433].
• Portelia Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [431].

 

Introduction

Dixon-Bridges et al. (2014) "modifed the generic diagnoses given by Ravara et al. (2010) to include the presence or absence of lyrate chaetae."

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic

Oriental Region

• India

General References

Dixon-Bridges, K., Gladstone, W. & Hutchings, P. 2014. One new species of Micronephthys Friedrich, 1939 and one new species of Nephtys Cuvier, 1817 (Polychaeta: Phyllodocida: Nephtyidae) from eastern Australia with notes on Aglaophamus australiensis (Fauchald, 1965) and a key to all Australian species. Zootaxa 3872(5): 513-540 [521-522]

Hartman, O. 1950. Goniadidae, Glyceridae and Nephtyidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 15: 1-181 [89]

Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1-628 [282]

Ravara, A., Cunha, M. & Pleijel, F. 2010. Nephtyidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from southern Europe. Zootaxa 2682: 1-68 [30]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	NEPHTYIDAE	17-Oct-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
17-Oct-2023		27-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)