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Species Platynereis polyscalma Chamberlin, 1919

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

South Pacific Islands.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, mud bottom, rock bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Platynereis polyscalma.
—Monro, C.C.A. 1931. Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 1–37 [18].
—Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 12: 1–262 [114–116].
—Hartman, O. 1940. Polychaetous annelids. Pt.2. Chrysopetalidae to Goniadidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 7: 173–287 [229–231, pl. 38].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [221–222, fig. 112].
—Reish, D.J. 1968. Polychaetous annelids of the Marshall Islands. Pacific Science 22(2): 208–231 [217–218].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Reid, A. 1991. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia — Leonnates, Platynereis and Solomonereis. Records of the Australian Museum 43: 47–62 [56–57].
—Glasby, C.J. 2015. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa. 4019 (1): 207–239.
—Hadiyanto, H. & Glasby, C.J. 2023. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia.Zootaxa. 5239 (2): 151–203.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 ANNELIDA 11-Aug-2023 MODIFIED
20-Jul-2023 NEREIDIDAE 05-Jul-2023 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 08-Jul-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 22-Apr-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 29-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 08-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)