Species Perinereis nigropunctata (Horst, 1889)
- Nereis nigropunctata Horst, R. 1889. Contributions towrads the knowledge of the Annelida Polychaeta. Notes from the Leyden Museum 11: 38-45, 161-186 [171-174] [as Nereis nigro-punctata].
Type data:
Status unknown, Malay. - Nereis (Perinereis) yorkensis Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 88A: 1-37 [24].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMH V9320, Cape York, Queensland. - Perinereis marjorii Southern, R. 1921. Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 5: 563-659 [595-597].
Type data:
Status unknown, Chilka Lake, India.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- Madagascar
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast, NW coast
Oriental Region
- India
- Malaysia
- (Mainland)
Ecological Descriptors
Estuary, intertidal, mangrove, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Under rocks, sheltered reefs and amongst oysters.
Citations
Perinereis nigropunctata.
—Horst, R 1924. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part III. Nereidae and Hesionidae. Siboga-Expeditie, Leiden 99: 145–198 [171].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1931. Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 1–37 [16].
—Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 12: 1–262 [107].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [210, fig. 107].
—Day, J.H. 1957. The Polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 4. New species from Natal and Mocambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 14: 59–129 [84].
—Day, J.H. 1962. Polychaeta from several localities in the western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 139: 627–656 [640].
—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) [337, fig. 14].
—Wu, S.-K. 1967. The nereid worms of Taiwan. Bulletin of the Institute of Zoology Academia Sinica. Taipei 6: 47–76 [64–66, fig. 9].
—Reish, D.J. 1968. Polychaetous annelids of the Marshall Islands. Pacific Science 22(2): 208–231 [218].
—Gibbs, P.E. 1971. The Polychaete fauna of the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 21(5): 101–211 [150].
—Ben-Eliahu, M.N. 1972. Polychaeta Errantia of the Suez Canal. Israel Journal of Zoology 21: 189–237 [222].
—Rullier, F. 1972. Annélides polychetes de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Exped. Franc. Recif Coral. Nouv.-Caled. 6: 1–169 [90].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 75–218 pp. [116–117, figs 203–206].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1980. Teil 4. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Port Samson im Norden und Exmouth im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 41–110 pp. [60].
—Hutchings, P.A., Reid, A. & Wilson, R.S. 1991. Perinereis from Australia (Polychaeta, Nereididae) from Australia, with redescriptions of six additional species. Records of the Australian Museum 43: 241–274 [256–257, fig. 10].
—Glasby, C.J. 2015. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa. 4019 (1): 207–239.
Misidentifications
as Perinereis striolata.
—Hylleberg, J., Nateewathana, A. & Bussarawit, S. 1986. Polychaetes of Thailand. Nereidae (Part 1); Perinereis and Pseudonereis with notes on species of commercial value. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 43: 1–22 [10–13, fig. 6].
History of changes
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