Genus Polydora Bosc, 1802

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polydora Bosc, L.A.G. 1802. Histoire naturelle des vers, contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. Paris : Déterville Vol. 1 324 pp. [150].

  Type species:

   Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1802 by original designation.
• Diplotis Montagu, G. 1815. Descriptions of several new or rare animals principally marine, found on the south coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 18-21.
• Leipoceras Möbius, K. 1874. Mollusca, Vermes and Coelenterata of the Second German North-Polar Voyage. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 13: 196-204 [Translation] [200].
• Leucodora Johnston, G. 1838. Miscellanea Zoologica. Ariciadae. Magazine of Zoology and Botany 2: 63-73 [66].
• Protopolydora Czerniavsky, V. 1881. Materialia ad Zoographiam Ponticam comparatam. Fasc. III. Vermes (cum una tabula). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 56(1): 338-420 [360].
• Pseudoleucodore Czerniavsky, V. 1881. Materialia ad Zoographiam Ponticam comparatam. Fasc. III. Vermes (cum una tabula). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 56(1): 338-420 [362].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • New Jersey

Neotropical Region

• Chile
• Falkland Islands

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
  • Sumatra
• Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

• France
• Italy
  • Italy (Mainland)
• Japan
• Madeira Islands
• United Kingdom
  • England

Citations

Polydora.
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [187].
—Blake, J.A. & Kudenov, J.D. 1978. The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 39: 171–280 [245–247].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		16-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)