Species Pistella anthela (Hutchings & Glasby, 1990)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pista anthela Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1990. Additional new species of the family Terebellidae (Polychaeta) from Western Australia, with a key to all described species of the region. pp. 251-289 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. [277-279 fig. 4a-h].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W203515 (complete, 90 segments; posterior end detached), Enderby Island, Dampier Archipelago, WA [20°36.1S, 116°31.4'E].
  Paratype(s) AM W203517 6 specimens (all complete), Enderby Island, Dampier Archipelago, WA [20°36.1'S, 116°31.4'E]; AM W203516 8 specimens (all complete with tubes), Enderby Island, Dampier Archipelago, WA [20°36.1S, 116°31.4'E]; AM W203523 2 specimens (complete with tubes), Slate Island, Kimberley Region, WA [15°32'S, 124°24'E]; AM W203520 1 specimen (complete), Wildcat Rocks, Kimberley Region, WA, 6-20 [15°17'S, 124°06'E]; AM W203521 2 specimens (complete), Jackson Island, Kimberley Region, WA [15°10'S, 124°28'E].

Generic Combinations

• Pistella anthela (Hutchings & Glasby, 1990). —
  Nogueira, J.M.M., Hutchings, P. & Carrerette, O. 2015. Terebellidae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4019: 484-576 [533-534]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

Under stones or in crevices.

History of changes