Species Serpula vasifera Haswell, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Serpula vasifera Haswell, W.A. 1884. The marine annelids of the order Serpulea. Some observations on their anatomy, with the characteristics of the Australian species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 649-675 [668-669].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Jackson, New South Wales
  Comment: Haswell’s collections were in the Macleay Museum of the University of Sydney but unfortunately many specimens were lost before they were transferred to the Australian Museum. Haswell did not designate types.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, N coast

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, sublittoral.

 

Misidentifications

as Serpula vermicularis.
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 [133–137].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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)