Species Pista australis Hutchings & Glasby, 1988

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pista australis Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1988. The Amphitritinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 40: 1-60 [40-41].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W200877 (complete), Merimbula, NSW [36°53'S, 149°52'E].
  Paratype(s) AM W11773 10 specimens, Merimbula, NSW [36°53'S, 149°52'E]; USNM 99977, Merimbula, NSW [36°53'S, 149°52'E]; BMNH ZB 1986.74-91 many, Merimbula, NSW [36°53'S, 149°52'E]; AHF Poly 1474 many, Merimbula, NSW [36°53'S, 149°52'E]; AM Wl1382 2 specimens, Merimbula, NSW [36°53'S, 149°52'E]; AM Wl1769 several, Merimbula, NSW [36°53'S, 149°52'E].
• Pista typha Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 32: 21-41 [38].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, N coast, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Sheltered embayments, associated with seagrass beds in temperate regions and dead coral substrata in tropical waters.

 

Misidentifications

as Pista typha Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [38].
—Hutchings, P. 1977. Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidiae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 1–38 [22–23] (in part, rest = Pista typha).
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [789–790].
—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 [100].

 

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

 

History of changes

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17-Oct-2023		15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
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