Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Syllis cornuta Rathke, 1843

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Species Syllis cornuta Rathke, 1843


Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast

Palaearctic Region

  • Norway

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in mud and seagrass beds.

 

Citations

Syllis cornuta.
—Imajima, M. 1966. The Syllidae (polychaetous annelids) from Japan. V. Syllinae (2). Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 14: 253–294
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [32].

Syllis (Ehlersia) cornuta.
—Fauvel, P. 1923. Faune de France. Vol 5 Polychètes errantes. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–488 pp.

Typosyllis (Langerhansia) cornuta.
—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)
—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. [52].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1981. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-asubtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes 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. 19–96 pp. [29–30].

Misidentifications

misidentification of Syllis (Ehlersia) cerina by Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [209].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 22-Apr-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 07-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
24-Mar-2010 MODIFIED