Species Rhodopsis pusilla Bush, 1905
Compiler and date details
Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Rhodopsis pusillus Bush, K.J. 1905. Tubicolous annelids of the tribes Sabellides and Serpulides from the Pacific Ocean. Harriman Alaska Expedition, New York 12: 169-355 [289-290].
Type data:
Neotype USNM 118145, Bermuda.
Distribution
States
Queensland
IMCRA
Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- Réunion
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef
Neotropical Region
- Bermuda
- Netherlands Antilles
Oriental Region
- Indonesia
Palaearctic Region
- Cyprus
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, intertidal, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Under and between living and dead coral, and on algae, intertidal to 20 m depth.
Misidentifications
as Josephella marenzelleri (in part).
—Straughan, D. 1967. Some Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Heron Island, Queensland. Papers from the Heron Island Research Station, University of Queensland 1: 27–45 [42, fig. 5i].
General References
Ben-Eliahu, M.N. & ten Hove, H.A. 1989. Redescription of Rhodopsis pusilla Bush, a little known but widely distributed species of Serpulidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta 18: 381-395 [383-390, figs 1-11] (as Rhodopsis pusilla)
History of changes
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