Species Paralepidonotus ampulliferus (Grube, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polynoe ampullifera Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperial de la Société des Sciences, Saint Pétersburg 7 25: ix 1-300 pls 1-15 [35-36].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 1138, Bohol, Philippines.
• Harmothoe pseudoampullifera de Silva, P.H.D.H. 1965. Notes on some polychaetes from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica 39(2): 1-24 [3-5].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in Indo-West Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Kenya

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
• Marshall Islands
• New Caledonia
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• India
• Philippines
• Vietnam

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

 

Citations

Polynoe ampullifera.
—Wiktor, J. 1980. Type specimens of Annelida Polychaeta in the Museum of Natural History of the Wroclaw University. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 35: 267–283 [269].
—Hanley, J.R. 1991. Revision of the genus Paralepidonotus Horst, 1915 (Polychaeta: Polynoidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 1053–1075 [1055–1062, figs 1–5].

Harmothoe ampullifera.
—Augener, H. 1927. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 38. Polychaeten von Südost und Süd-Australien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 83: 71–275 [108–110].

Paralepidonotus ampulliferus.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [47–48].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [23].
—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 [15–16].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1985. Teil 11. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Port Lincoln im Westen und Port Augusta im Osten). 61–99 in Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 82 [62].
—Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1990. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) of Albany, Western Australia. pp. 203–236 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1 [211–213, fig. 4].

Misidentifications

as Eunoa etheridgei.
—Hutchings, P.A. 1974. Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 98: 175–195 [177].

 

History of changes

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		12-Feb-2010	(import)