Species Nereis bifida Hutchings & Turvey, 1982

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• Nereis bifida Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1982. The Nereididae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 106: 93-144 [116-119].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W18533 (79 chaetigers), Speeds Point, Streaky Bay, SA [32°48'S, 134°13'E].
  Paratype(s) AHF Poly 1351 3 specimens, Speeds Point, Streaky Bay, SA [32°48'S, 134°13'E]; BMNH ZB 1982:25-27 3 specimens, Speeds Point, Streaky Bay, SA [32°48'S, 134°13'E]; USNM 071534 3 specimens, Speeds Point, Streaky Bay, SA [32°48'S, 134°13'E]; AM W18358 5 specimens, Speeds Point, Streaky Bay, SA [32°48'S, 134°13'E]; AM W18359 5 specimens, Speeds Point, Streaky Bay, SA [32°48'S, 134°13'E]; AM W18360, Venus Bay, SA [33°14'S, 134°40'E]; AM W18356 2 specimens, Elliston Reef, SA [33°39'S, 134°53'E]; AM W18357 16 specimens, Elliston Reef, SA [33°39'S, 134°53'E]; AM W18362 3 specimens, Emu Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA [35°35'S, 137°31'E]; AM W18369 10 specimens, Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA [35°37'S, 137°12'E]; AM W18370 6 specimens, Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA [35°37'S, 137°12'E]; AM W18373 4 specimens, 3 km south west of Cape Rouge, Kangaroo Island, SA; AM W18366 1 specimen, Snellings Beach, mouth of Middle River, Kangaroo Island [35°42'S, 137°06'E]; AM W18372 1 specimen, Penneshaw jetty, Kangaroo Island, SA [35°43'S, 137°56'E]; AM W18371 2 specimens, Western River Cove, Kangaroo Island, SA [35°43'S, 136°56'E]; AM W18365 72 specimens, Maston Point, American River, Kangaroo Island, SA [35°47'S, 137°46'E]; AM W18364 1 specimen, Maston Point, American River, Kangaroo Island, SA [35°47'S, 137°46'E]; AM W18367 2 specimens, Cape du Couedic, Kangaroo Island, SA [36°03'S, 136°41'E]; AM W18368 4 specimens, Cape du Couedic, Kangaroo Island, SA [36°03'S, 136°41'E]; AM W18363 2 specimens, Hanson Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA [36°02'S, 136°51'E].
• Nereis parabifida Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1982. The Nereididae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 106: 93-144 [132-133].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W18511 (53 chaetigers), off Sydney, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM W4804, W6284, W18512; AHF N6450.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, 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), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, estuary, rock bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with algae and seagrass beds.

Misidentifications

as Nereis jacksoni.
—Kinberg, J.G.H. 1866. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 167–179.
—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 [95–98, fig. 3] (in part).
—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 [31, figs 26–29] (in part).

as Nereis heirissonensis.
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [159–163, pl. 3] (in part).

Citations

Nereis bifida.
—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 [41].
—Wilson, R.S. 1985. Nereis and Platynereis (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from Victoria with description of a new species of Nereis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 97: 129–138 [130–132, fig. 2].
—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. [27].
—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. [60].
—Hadiyanto, H. & Glasby, C.J. 2023. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia.Zootaxa. 5239 (2): 151–203.

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