Species Serpula watsoni Willey, 1905

Museums

Regional Maps

• Serpula watsoni Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. Suppl. 4. 243-324 pp. [317].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Underside of rocks intertidally, towards the LWM.

Citations

Serpula watsoni.
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [207–208, fig. 3b].
—Imajima, M. 1977. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Islands). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 10: 89–111 [91–92, fig. 2].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1984. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Truk, Ponape and Majuro Islands, with some other new Indo-Pacific records. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 27: 35–66 [38–39, fig. 2].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1986. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Nauru, the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) and the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 32: 1–16 [2].

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