Species Prionospio multicristata Hutchings & Rainer, 1979

Museums

Regional Maps

• Prionospio multicristata Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745-796 [768-771].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W8273 (71 segments), Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) AM W8282 & W8286; AHF Poly 1243; BMNH ZB 1977:105; USNM 55200 (All paratypes from same locality as the holotype)
  Comment: All material incomplete posteriorly.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, estuary, sublittoral.

Citations

Prionospio multicristata.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1982. Teil 8. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-antiborealen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Cervantes im Norden und Cape Naturaliste im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 51–118 pp. [86–87].
—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 [11–12].
—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].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1984. Teil 10. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Albany im Westen und Ceduna im Osten). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 7–62 pp. [36].
—Wilson, R.S. 1990. Prionospio and Paraprionospio (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from southern Australia. Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 50: 243–274 [256].

Misidentifications

as Prionospio 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, 119] (in part).

as Prionospio malmgreni.
—Hutchings, P.A. 1974. Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 98: 175–195 [182].

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