Species Palmyra aurifera Savigny in Lamarck, 1818
Type data:
Holotype MNHP UC92, Mascarenes, Mauritius.- Palmyropsis macintoshi Potts, F.A. 1909. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Pt. 1. Amphinomidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 12(2): 355-371 [370].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH ZK 1924 3.1.149, Mascarenes, Mauritius. - Palmyra splendens 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 2nd Series Zoology 13: 325-353 [327].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH ZK 1924.3.1.80, Cargados Carajos.
Distribution
States
Queensland
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
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