Species Pseudopolydora kempi (Southern, 1921)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polydora (Carazzia) kempi Southern, R. 1921. Polychaeta of the Chilka Lake and also of fresh and brackish waters in other parts of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 5: 563-659 [636-638].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Chilka Lake, India.
• Neopygospio laminifera Berkeley, E. & Berkeley, C. 1954. Additions to the polychaete fauna of Canada, with comments on some older records. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 11: 454-471 [462].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, British Columbia, Canada.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast

Nearctic Region

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

Oriental Region

• India

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom, seagrass, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Polydora (Carazzia) kempi.
—Okuda, S. 1937. Spioniform polychaetes from Japan. Journal of the Faculty of Science of the Hokkaido Imperial University 6 5(3): 217–254 [233].

Pseudopolydora kempi.
—Blake, J.A. 1975. Phylum Annelida: Class Polychaeta. pp. 151–243 in Smith, R.I. & Carlton, J.T. (eds). Light's Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast. Berkeley : University of California Press [215].
—Blake, J.A. & Woodwick, K.H. 1975. Reproduction and larval development of Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata (Okuda) and Pseudopolydora kempi (Southern) (Polychaeta: Spionidae). Biological Bulletin, Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole 149: 109–127 [126].
—Poore, G.C.B., Rainer, S.F., Spies, R.B. & Ward, E. 1975. The zoobenthos program in Port Phillip Bay, 1969–73. Fisheries and Wildlife Technical Paper, Victoria 7: 1–78 [30].
—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 [268–269].
—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 [61].

Misidentifications

as Polydora sp.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Recher, H.F. 1974. The fauna of Careel Bay with comments on the eceology of mangrove and seagrass communities. Australian Zoologist 18(2): 99–128 [105] (in part).

misidentification of Pseudopolydora kempi
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [773–774].

 

General References

Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) Part 1 Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1-458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459-878. [473, fig. 18] (as Polydora kempi)

 

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)