Species Nephtys inornata Rainer & Hutchings, 1977

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nephtys inornata Rainer, S.F. & Hutchings, P. 1977. Nephtyidae (Polychaeta: Errantia) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 307-347 [327-332].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W8706 (51 segments), Gunnamatta Bay, Port Hacking, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM W8707-10; AHF Poly 1140; USNM 53288, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW; BMNH ZB 1976:1, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In mud and sand down to 66 m depth.

Citations

Nephtys inornata.
—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 [43].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1984. Teil 10. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Albany im Westen und Ceduna im Osten). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 7–62 pp. [30–31, figs 29–33].

Misidentifications

as Nephtys australiensis.
—Fauchald, K. 1965. Some Nephtyidae (Polychaeta) from Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 333–340 [334–335] (in part).

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