Genus Rhamphobrachium Ehlers, 1887

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• Rhamphobrachium Ehlers, E. 1887. Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L.F. Pourtales, during the years 1868–1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878–79), in the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake, Lieut.-Com. C.D. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 15: 1-335.

  Type species:

   Rhamphobrachium agassizii Ehlers, 1887 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Citations

Rhamphobrachium.
—Paxton, H. 1986. Revision of the Rhamphobrachium complex (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38: 75–104.

Details of nominate subgenus, not present in Australia

Rhamphobrachium Ehlers, 1887

Rhamphobrachium Ehlers, E. 1887. Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L.F. Pourtales, during the years 1868–1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878–79), in the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake, Lieut.-Com. C.D. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 15: 1-335 [70].
Type species: Rhamphobrachium agassizi Ehlers, 1887 by subsequent designation.

Paranorthia Moore, J.P. 1903. Polychaeta from the coastal slope of Japan and from Kamchatka and Bering Sea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 55: 401-490 [448].
Type species: Paranorthia brevicornuta Moore, 1903 by subsequent monotypy.

General References

Paxton, H. 1986. Revision of the Rhamphobrachium complex (Polychaeta: Onuphidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38: 75-104 (referred to an undescribed Rhamphobrachium sp.)

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