Genus Serpula Linnaeus, 1758

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Genus Serpula Linnaeus, 1758

Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Serpula Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [786].
Type species:
Serpula vermicularis Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
Helena Castelnau, F.L. 1842. L'Histoire naturelle des Annélides. in Lucas, P.H. (ed.) Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Myriopodes. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. 1-601 pp. [25].
Zopyrus Kinberg, J.G.H. 1865. Annulata nova. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 22(4): 239-258 [Date published 1866] [351].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, Tas. Coast
Marshall Islands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
- North Island
Palau
Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

Japan

Citations

Serpula.
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [266–267].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [205].

General References

Kupriyanova, E.K., Bastida-Zavala, R., Halt, M.N,., Lee, M.S.Y. & Rouse, G.W. 2008. Phylogeny of the Serpula-Crucigera-Hydroides clade (Serpulidae: Annelidae) using molecular and morphological data: implications for operculum evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 425-437

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
17-Oct-2023	15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	09-Aug-2010	MOVED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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