Species Nicolea amnis Hutchings & Murray, 1984
- Nicolea amnis 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 [98-100].
Type data:
Holotype AM W196218, Botany Bay, New South Wales.
Paratype(s) BMNH ZB 1983.1750-2; AHF Poly 1408; USNM 81486; AM W196837. Type data:
Holotype ZMH P-17962 (34 segments), Goode Beach, Fenchmans Bay, Albany, Western Australia.
Paratype(s) WAM 9-84; AM W198419; ZMH P-17963.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia
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), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, rock reef, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Protected embayments, on rocky reefs associated with kelp holdfasts and ascidians, on soft bottoms associated with Posidonia and Caulerpa, also in coral substrata.
Citations
Nicolea amnis.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1988. The Amphitritinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 40: 1–60 [35–36].
Misidentifications
as Nicolea venustula.
—Day, J.H. 1975. On a collection of Polychaeta from intertidal and shallow reefs near Perth, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 167–208 [201].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1982. Teil 8. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-antiborealen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Cervantes im Norden und Cape Naturaliste im Süden). 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. 51–118 pp. [90].
as Axionice harrisoni.
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [38].
History of changes
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