Species Nephtys longipes Stimpson, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nephtys longipes Stimpson, W. 1855. Description of new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 385-395 [392].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Botany Bay, New South Wales.
• Nephtys vikingensis Paxton, H. 1974. Contribution to the study of Australian Nephtyidae (Polychaeta). Records of the Australian Museum 29(7): 197-208 [204-207].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W5251 (143 chaetigers), Batemans Bay, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM W5253-4; AM W5252, Wallis Lake, NSW; BMNH ZB.1973.6; AHF Poly 1002.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On clean sandy beaches, intertidal to subtidal.

 

Citations

Nephtys longipes.
—Rainer, S.F. & Hutchings, P. 1977. Nephtyidae (Polychaeta: Errantia) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 307–347 [332–334, figs 29, 43].
—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 [44].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1990. Teil 15. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen und tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) im Süden und Gladstone (Queensland) im Norden. 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. 41–87 pp. [64].

Misidentifications

as Nephtys picta.
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [28, figs 15–16].

 

General References

Hutchings, P.A. 1974. Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 98: 175-195 [181] (as Nephtys sp.)

 

History of changes

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