Species Serpula jukesii Baird, 1865

Museums

Regional Maps

• Serpula jukesii Baird, W. 1865. Description of several new species and varieties of tubicolous Annelids (=tribe Limivora of Grube) in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 8: 10-22 [20].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, Australia.
• Serpula magna Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201-261 [208-209].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W4015, Shoal Point, Mackay, Queensland.
• Serpula granulosa Marenzeller, E. von 1885. Südjapanische Anneliden. II. Ampharetea, Terebellacea, Sabellacea, Serpulacea. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 49(2): 197–224 [215].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Japan.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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), 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)

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

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually found on underside of rocks or in rock pools around the low water mark.

 

Misidentifications

as Serpula vermicularis.
—Dew, B. 1959. Serpulidae (Polychaeta) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 19–56 [21–23, fig. 3].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Some Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Heron Island, Queensland. Papers from the Heron Island Research Station, University of Queensland 1: 27–45 [30].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [206, fig. 3].
—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 [104].

Citations

Serpula magna.
—ten Hove, H.A. & Jansen-Jacobs, M.J. 1984. A revision of the genus Crucigera (Polychaeta; Serpulidae); a proposed methodical approach to serpulids, with special reference to variation in Serpula and Hydroides. pp. 143–180 in Hutchings, P.A. (ed). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1983. Sydney : The Linnean Society of New South Wales 483 pp..

 

History of changes

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