Species Pseudonereis rottnestiana (Augener, 1913)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nereis (Pseudonereis) rottnestiana Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65-304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Band 4, Lieferung 5.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, No details provided, Green Island, Rottnest, Western Australia.
• Pseudonereis (rottnestiana) seriodentata Hartmann-Schröder G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). In, Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 76: 75–218 [118–119, figs 216–219] (invalid name; as Pseudonereis rottnestiana forma seriodentata).

Generic Combinations

• Pseudonereis rottnestiana (Augener, 1913). —
  Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 12: 1-262

Introduction

Pseudonereis rottnestiana was previously synonymised with Pseudonereis anomala by Bakken (2007) on the basis of a lack of morphological difference. However, subsequent studies conducted by Fauvel (1932), Hartman (1954) and Hadiyanto & Glasby (2023) recognised differences in notopodial homogomph falcigers (absence of the feature in P. rottnestiana), which led Hadiyanto & Glasby (2023) to reinstate the species.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, rocky shore, subtidal.

General References

Bakken, T. 2007. Revision of Pseudonereis (Polychaeta, Nereididae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 145-176

Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 12: 1-262

Hadiyanto, H. & Glasby, C.J. 2023. Nereididae (Annelida: Phyllodocida) from intertidal macroalgae in Western Australia. Zootaxa 5329(2): 151–203

Hartman, O. 1954. Australian Nereidae including descriptions of three new species and one genus, together with summaries of previous records and keys to species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 77: 1-41

History of changes