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Species Palmyra aurifera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818

Distribution

States

Queensland


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Mauritius
  • Réunion
  • Seychelles

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic
  • Fiji
  • Marshall Islands
  • Palau

Oriental Region

  • Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Restricted to cracks and crevices in sponges, calcareous algae and corals.

 

Citations

Palmyra aurifera.
—Savigny, J.-C. 1820. Système des annélides, principalement de celles des côtes de l'Égypte et de la Syrie, offrant les caractères tant distinctifs que naturels des Ordres, Familles et Genres, avec la Description des Espèces. Description de l'Egypte. Histoire Naturelle, Paris 1: 1–128 [17].
—Blainville, H. de 1828. Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes … d'après l'état actuel de nos connais sciences, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la mediciné. Vol. 1. [462–463].
—Audouin, J.V. & Milne Edwards, H. 1832. Classification des Annélides, et Description de celles qui habitent les côtes de la France. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 1 27: 337–447 [445–446, pl. 10, figs 1–6].
—Grube, A.-E. 1850. Die Familien der Anneliden. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 16: 249–364 [286–287].
—Grube, A.-E. 1875. Bemerkungen ueber die Familie der Aphroditen. Gruppe Hermionea und Sigalionina. Jahresbericht der Schlesischen Gesellshaft für Vaterländische Kultur, Breslau 52: 57–79 [57–59].
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [13–15].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [80–83].
—Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A: 1–37 [9–10].
—Chamberlin, R.V. 1919. Albatross Polychaeta (Rep. Sci. Res. Exp. Albatross). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 48: 1–514 [92].
—Hartman, O. 1954. Marine annelids from the northern Marshall islands. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 260: 615–644 [630, fig. 174a].
—Watson Russell, C. 1989. Revision of Palmyra Savigny (Polychaeta: Aphroditidae) and redescription of Palmyra aurifera. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 6: 35–53 [44–51, figs 1–4].

Palmyropsis macintoshi.
—Potts, F.A. 1910. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Pt. 2. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2 16: 325–353 [326, pls 45–46].

Misidentifications

misidentification as Palmyra aurifera by McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology 12: 1–554 [53].

 

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 07-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 07-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)