Species Polydora websteri Hartman, 1943

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• Polydora websteri Hartman, O. 1943. Description of Polydora websteri n.sp. pp. 70-72 in Loosanoff, V.L. & Engle, J. Polydora in oysters suspended in the water. Biological Bulletin. Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole) 85: 69-78 [70-72].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New England, USA.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

North America.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Drills into oyster shells.

 

Misidentifications

as Polydora ciliata.
—Haswell, W.A. 1885. On a destructive parasite of the rock oyster (Polydora ciliata and P. polybranchia n. sp.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 273–275 [272].

Citations

Polydora websteri.
—Blake, J.A. 1971. Revision of the genus Polydora from the east coast of North America (Polychaeta: Spionidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 75: 1–32 [6].
—Foster, N.M. 1971. Spionidae (Polychaeta) of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 36: 1–183 [26].
—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 [258–259, fig. 43k–n].

 

History of changes

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