Species Spirobranchus kraussii (Baird, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Placostegus cariniferus kraussii 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 [14] [as Placostegus cariniferus var. kraussii].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Cape of Good Hope.
• Pomatoleios crosslandi 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 [85-86].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.

 

Generic Combinations

• Spirobranchus kraussii (Baird, 1865).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical Indo-Pacific.

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 Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Forms a thickly populated zone in the same littoral zone as Galeolaria.

 

Citations

Pomatoleios crosslandi.
—Okuda, S. 1937. Annelida polychaeta in Onagawa Bay and its vicinity. I. Polychaeta Sedentaria. Scientific Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University 12: 45–69 [64–67, pl. 2].
—Pillai, T.G. 1960. Some marine and brackish-water serpulid polychaetes from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science 3: 1–40 [15–17].

Pomatoleios kraussii.
—Dew, B. 1959. Serpulidae (Polychaeta) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 19–56 [47].
—Imajima, M. & Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 26: 1–452 [372].
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [800–801, fig. 38].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [235].
—Imajima, M. 1976. Serpulid polychaetes from Tanega-shima, southwest Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 9: 123–143 [135–136].
—Imajima, M. 1977. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Islands). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 10: 89–111 [101–102].
—Imajima, M. 1979. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 12: 160–183 [178].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 75–218 pp. [152–153].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1980. Teil 4. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Port Samson im Norden und Exmouth im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 41–110 pp. [80].

 

History of changes

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