Genus Octobranchus Marion & Bobretzky, 1875

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• Octobranchus Marion, A.F. & Bobretzky, N. 1875. Étude des Annélides du golfe de Marseille. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 6 2: 1-106 [87].

  Type species:

   Terebella lingulata Grube, 1863 by original designation.
• Novobranchus Berkeley, E. & Berkeley, C. 1954. Additions to the polychaete fauna of Canada, with comments on some older records. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 11: 454-471 [465].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast

Citations

Octobranchus.
—Holthe, T. 1986. Evolution, systematics, and distribution of the Polychaeta Terebellomorpha, with a catalogue of the taxa and a bibliography. Gunneria 55: 1–236 [114].
—Holthe, T. 1986. Polychaeta Terebellomorpha. Marine Invertebrates of Scandinavia. Oslo, Norway : Norwegian University Press Vol. 7 1–192 pp. [168].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Peart, R. 2000. A revision of the Australian Trichobranchidae (Polychaeta). Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 225–272.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		10-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)