Species Perinereis vancaurica (Ehlers, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nereis vancaurica Ehlers, E. 1868. Die Borstenwürmer, nach systematischen und anatomischen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann 290 pp. [20].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, NHM-UK 1938.5.7.29 (Listed as Cotype), Nicobar Islands, India.
• Perinereis horsti Gravier, C. 1901. Contribution à l'étude des Annélides polychètes de la Mer Rouge. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4 3: 147-268 [182-184].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHNP POLY TYPE 350, Djibouti, Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean [11.7°N, 43.1°E].
• Perinereis vancaurica indica Bhatt, Y.M. & Bal, D.V. 1966. An account of the polychaetous annelids of Bombay. Journal of the University of Bombay N.S. 32: 24-51 [25].

  Type data:

   Holotype Numbers not provided (Holotype listed as "Zoology Dept., Institute of Science, Bombay"), Malabar Point, Breach Candy and Sewree Mud flat.
• Perinereis vancaurica tetradentata Imajima, M. 1972. Review of the annelid worms of the family Nereidae of Japan, with description of five new species or subspecies. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 15: 37-153 [86-88].

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMT Pol. H 78 (Possibly fresh or brackish water? - from WoRMS), Sumida River, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed in tropical Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, mangrove.

Extra Ecological Information

Also under oysters and barnacle encrusted rocks.

 

Citations

Nereis vancaurica.
—Ehlers, E. 1904. Neuseeländische Anneliden. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 3: 1–80 [25].
—Fauvel, P. 1923. Faune de France. Vol 5 Polychètes errantes. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–488 pp. [34].

Nereis languida.
—Grube, A.-E. 1867. Anneliden. Reise der Oesterreichischen Fregatte 'Novara' um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Zoolgischer Teil, Wien 2: 1–46 [15, pl. 2].
—Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A: 1–37 [17].

Nereis (Perinereis) vancaurica.
—Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A: 1–37 [23–24]

Perinereis vancaurica.
—Monro, C.C.A. 1931. Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 1–37 [14].
—Kott, P. 1951. Nereidae and Eunicidae of south Western Australia; also notes on the ecology of Western Australian limestone reefs. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 35: 85–130 [88, 111].
—Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 12: 1–262 [103].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [205–206, fig. 105].
—Russell, E. 1962. Some nereid polychaetes from Queensland. University of Queensland Papers. Department of Zoology 2: 1–12 [7].
—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) [334, fig. 14].
—Wu, S.-K. 1967. The nereid worms of Taiwan. Bulletin of the Institute of Zoology Academia Sinica. Taipei 6: 47–76 [70–71].
—[Wu et al., 1985]: 195–197, fig. 111.
—Rullier, F. 1972. Annélides polychetes de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Exped. Franc. Recif Coral. Nouv.-Caled. 6: 1–169 [90–92].
—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. [117, figs 207–210].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1990. Teil 15. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen und tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) im Süden und Gladstone (Queensland) im Norden. 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. 41–87 pp. [63].
—Lana, P.C. 1984. Anelideos poliquetas errantes do litoral do Estado do Paraná. [Unpublished D. Sc. Thesis]. Boletim do Instituto Oceanográfico, Sao Paulo. 2751– pp. [121–123].
—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 [265–266, fig. 17].
—Glasby, C.J. 2015. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa. 4019 (1): 207–239.
—Hadiyanto, H. & Glasby, C.J. 2015. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia. Zootaxa. 5239 (2): 151–203.

Misidentifications

as Perinereis linea.
—Wu, S.-K. 1967. The nereid worms of Taiwan. Bulletin of the Institute of Zoology Academia Sinica. Taipei 6: 47–76 [68–69, fig. 10].

 

General References

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 [83-84] (as Nereis (Perinereis) vancaurica)

Shin, P.K. 1982. Some polychaetous annelids from Hong Kong waters. pp. 161-172 in Morton, B.S. & Tseng, C.K. (eds). Proceedings of the First International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China, Hong Kong, 1980. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press. [164-165] (as Perinereis sp.)

 

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