Species Owenia australis Ford & Hutchings, 2005

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• Owenia australis Ford, E. & Hutchings, P. 2005. An analysis of morphological characters of Owenia useful to distinguish species: description of three new species of Owenia (Oweniidae: Polychaeta) from Australian waters. Marine Ecology 26: 181-196 [187-189].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W29296 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E].
  Paratype(s) AM W29293 4 specimens, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29292 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29314 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29315 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29316 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29317 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29318 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29319 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29320 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29321 4 specimens, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29322 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29323 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W29324 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E]; AM W298325 1 specimen, Clyde R. 500 m north of intersection of Deep & Waterfall Creeks, NSW [35°43.55'S, 150°08.05'E].

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844 [misidentification]. —
  Hutchings, P., van der Velde, J.L. & Keable, S.J. 1989. Baseline survey of the benthic macrofauna of Twofold Bay, N.S.W., with a discussion of the marine species introduced into the Bay. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 110(4): 339-367
• Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844 [misidentification]. —
  Hutchings, P.A. & Jacoby, C.A. 1994. Temporal and spatial patterns in the distribution of infaunal polychaetes in Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia. pp. 279-363 in Dauvin, J.-C., Laubier, L. & Reish, D.J. Actes de la 4ème Conférence internationale des Polychètes. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 45: 642 pp. [446]
• Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844 [misidentification]. —
  Day J.H. & Hutchings P.A. 1984. An annotated list of the fauna and flora of Merimbula and Pambula Lake N.S.W. The Australian Zoologist 21(2-3): 263-289 [277]
• Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844 [misidentification]. —
  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 [87]
• Owenia fusiformis Delle Chiaje, 1844 [misidentification]. —
  Poore, G.C.B. 1982. Benthic communities of the Gippsland Lakes, Victoria. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 901-915 [910] (misidentification)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

General References

Delle Chiaje, S. 1844. Descritione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822–1830. Napoli. [Tome 6-7, pl. 1-173 [1841], pl. 174-181 [1844]] (described as Owenia fusiformis)

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