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Species Platynereis bicanaliculata (Baird, 1863)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast
  • Hawaii

Nearctic Region

  • Canada
    • British Columbia
  • United States of America
    • California
    • Washington

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

From under rocks, in sand, amongst kelp holdfasts, calcareous algae and seagrass beds.

 

Citations

Nereis agassizi.
—Izuka, A. 1912. The Errantia Polychaeta of Japan. Tokyo Journal of Collective Science 30: 1–262 [160–162, pl. 1 & 17].

Nereis dumerilii.
—Izuka, A. 1912. The Errantia Polychaeta of Japan. Tokyo Journal of Collective Science 30: 1–262 [158–160, pl. 17].

Platynereis agassizi.
—Okuda, S. 1938. Polychaetous annelids from the vicinity of the Mitsui Institute of Marine Biology. Japanese Journal of Zoology 8: 75–105 [93].
—[Okuda & Yamada, 1954]: 185–186, fig. 3.

Platynereis bicanaliculata.
—Imajima, M. & Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 26: 1–452 [152–153].
—Wu, S.-K. 1967. The nereid worms of Taiwan. Bulletin of the Institute of Zoology Academia Sinica. Taipei 6: 47–76 [57–58, fig. 5].
—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 [76–79, figs 18,19,22].
—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 [42].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Reid, A. 1991. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia — Leonnates, Platynereis and Solomonereis. Records of the Australian Museum 43: 47–62 [55].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 08-Jul-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 22-Apr-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 29-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 08-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)