Species Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861)
Compiler and date details
Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Pomatoceros tetraceros Schmarda, L.K. 1861. Neue Turbellarian, Rotatorien und Anneliden beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise un die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite halfte). Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann pp. 1-164. [30].
Type data:
Neotype AM W.51859 (Specimen without tube), off La Perouse Point, Port Botany, New South Wales, Australia [33°59'36"S, 151°13'39"E].Subsequent designation references:
Kupriyanova, E.K., Flaxman, B. & Burghardt, I. 2022. A puzzle no more: The identity of Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861) (Annelida, Serpulidae) is revealed. Records of the Australian Museum 74(5): 201–214. - Spirobranchus semperi Mörch, O.A.L. 1863. Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Roerormenes Naturhistorie. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 1: 347-470, 1 pl. [405-406].
Type data:
Status unknown, Philippines. - Serpula tricornigera Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperial de la Société des Sciences, Saint Pétersburg 7 25: ix 1-300 pls 1-15 [273-275].
Type data:
Status unknown, Pandanon, Philippines.
Introduction
Spirobranchus tetraceros was originally described as Pomatoceros tetraceros by Schmarda (1861). The type-locality for the species was not specified beyond New South Wales and the holotype has not been deposited in any depository. The species had long been considered a complex of species, with the name having been used for various populations around the world. Recent genetic analyses conducted by Palero et al. (2020), which built on the work conducted by Perry et al. (2018) confirmed that the name actually represents a complex of species.
Kupriyanova et al. (2022) examined the taxonomic status of S. tetraceros along the east coast of Australia (NSW and QLD). Given the lack of a holotype, they redescribed the species, designating a neotype and assigned Port Botany, NSW as the type-locality. Genetic sequencing revealed that some specimens from NSW represent a distinct species (Spirobranchus schmardai) and specimens from QLD belong to at least two distinct species, which are currently recognised only as S cf. tetraceros B and S cf. tetraceros C.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Previously thought to have a circum-tropical distribution (except west coast of Africa) - currently recognised as being restricted to New South Wales, Australia.
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, estuary, sublittoral, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Essentially a species from sheltered lagoonal habitats.
Citations
Spirobranchus semperi.
—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. [318].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [300–302].
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 [148–152].
Spirobranchus tetraceros.
—Imajima, M. 1979. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 12: 160–183 [177–178, fig. 8].
—Imajima, M. 1982. Serpulinae (Polychaetous Annelids) from the Palau and Yap Islands, Micronesia. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 23: 37–55 [48].
—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 [51–52]
—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 [8].
Serpula tricornigera.
—Wiktor, J. 1980. Type specimens of Annelida Polychaeta in the Museum of Natural History of the Wroclaw University. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 35: 267–283 [281].
General References
Kupriyanova, E.K., Flaxman, B. & Burghardt, I. 2022. A puzzle no more: The identity of Spirobranchus tetraceros (Schmarda, 1861) (Annelida, Serpulidae) is revealed. Records of the Australian Museum 74(5): 201–214
Palero, F., Torrado, H., Perry, O., Kupriyanova, E.K., Ulman, A., ten Hove, H.A. & Capaccioni-Azzati, R. 2020. Following the Phoenician example: Western Mediterranean colonization by Spirobranchus cf. tetraceros (Annelida: Serpulidae). Scientia Marina 84(1): 83–92
Perry, O., Bronstein, O., Simon-Blecher, N., Atkins, A., Kupriyanova, E., ten Hove, H.A., Levy, O. & Fine, M. 2018. On the genus Spirobranchus (Annelida, Serpulidae) from the northern Red Sea, and a description of a new species. Invertebrate Systematics 32: 605–625
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-Jul-2023 | SERPULIDAE | 23-Jun-2023 | MODIFIED | |
| 17-Oct-2023 | SABELLIDA | 23-Sep-2015 | MODIFIED | |
| 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) |