Species Prionospio aucklandica Augener, 1923

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prionospio aucklandica Augener, H. 1923. Polychaeten von den Auckland und Campbell-Inseln. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 75: 1-115 [69-70].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (types possibly in Natural History Museum of Denmark), Port Ross, Auckland Island, NZ
  Comment: Specimens held at the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, seagrass, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Seagrass beds and coralline algae.

Citations

Prionospio aucklandica.
—Augener, H. 1926. Papers from Dr. T.H. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–16. XXXIV. Polychaeta III. Polychaeten von Neuseeland. II. Sedentaria. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 81: 157–294 [158–159, fig. 1].
—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 [60].

Aquilaspio aucklandica.
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [763].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1984. The Spionidae of South Australia (Annelida: Polychaeta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 1–20 [8–9].

General References

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, Melbourne 39: 171-280 [221-222, fig. 25b-g] (as Prionospio (Aquilaspio) aucklandica)

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 [105-106] (as Aquilaspio aucklandica)

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

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