Genus Spirobranchus Blainville, 1818

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spirobranchus Blainville, H. de 1818. Mémoire sur la classe des Setipodes partie des Vers a sang rouge de M. Cuvier, et des Annélides de M. de Lamarck. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomathique de Paris 3: 78-85 [79].

  Type species:

   Serpula gigantea Pallas, 1766 by original designation.
• Cymospira Blainville, H. de 1828. Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes … d'après l'état actuel de nos connais sciences, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la mediciné. Vol. 1. [401].
• Pomatoceropsis Gravier, C. 1905. Sur deux types nouveaux de Serpuliens Pomatoceropsis nov. gen., coutierei nov. sp., Bonhourella nov. gen., insignis. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 11: 445-451 [445].

  Type species:

   Pomatoceropsis coutieri Gravier, 1905 by original designation.
• Pseudopomatoceros Holly, M. 1936. Zur Nomenklatur der Polychaeten-Gattung Pomatoceropsis Holly. Zoologischer Anzeiger 114: 223 [223].
• Pomatoleios Pixell, H.L.M. 1913. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean, together with some species from the Cape Verde Islands. The Serpulidae, with a classification of the genera Hydroides and Eupomatus. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 16: 69-92.

  Type species:

   Pomatoleios crosslandi Pixell, 1913 by original designation.
• Pomatoceros Philippi, A. 1844. Einige Bemerkungen uber die Gattung Serpula, nebst Aufzahlung der von mir im Mittelmeer mit dem Thier beobacteten Arten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 10: 186-198.

  Type species:

   Serpula triqueter Linnaeus, 1767 by original designation.
• Podioceros Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret.

  Type species:

   Vermilia lamarckii Quatrefages, 1865 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pillai, G. 2009. Descriptions of new serpulid polychaetes from the Kimberleys of Australia and discussion of Australian and Indo-West Pacific species of Spirobranchus and superficially similar taxa. Records of the Australian Museum 61(2): 93-199

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), 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), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• South Africa

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, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • Lord Howe Island
• Hawaii
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island
• Palau
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • California

Neotropical Region

• Trinidad and Tobago

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
  • Java
• Malaysia
• Philippines
  • Mindoro
• Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Citations

Spirobranchus.
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [242–243].

Misidentifications

Vermilia.
—Lamarck, J.B. de 1818. Histoire Naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, presentant les caractères generaux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédes d'une I. Paris : Déterville Vol. 5 1–612 pp. [368] (part).

 

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)