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Species Terebellides woolawa Hutchings & Peart, 2000

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Species Terebellides woolawa Hutchings & Peart, 2000


Compiler and date details

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

  • Type data:
     Holotype AM W5038 (65 segments), 1.6 km south east of SW Rocks, Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld, 4 [27°30'S, 153°21'E].
    Paratype(s) AM W5043 1 specimen, 1.6 km south east of SW Rocks, Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld, 6 [27°30'S, 153°21'E]; AM W5050 1 specimen, 800 m south of SW Rocks, Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld, 7; QM G217306 1 specimen, 800 m south of SW Rocks, Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld, 6; USNM 186053 2 specimens, 2.4 km south of SW Rocks, Moreton Bay, Qld, 4; LACM-AHF POLY 1920 1 specimen, Victoria Point, Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [27°35'S, 153°20'18"E]; BMNH 1999.1084 1 specimen, east channel, off Tangalooma Point, Moreton Island, Qld [27°12'S, 153°21'E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia


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

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, N coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to shallow habitats often associated with algae or seagrass beds.

 

Misidentifications

as Terebellides stroemii.
—Rullier, F. 1965. Contribution à la faune des Annélides Polychètes de l'Australie. Papers, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland Papers 2(9): 163–201 [197].
—Stephenson, W., Williams, W.T. & Lance, G.N. 1970. The macrobenthos of Moreton Bay. Ecological Monographs 40: 459–494 [491] (in part).
—Stephenson, W., Williams, W.T. & Cook, S.D. 1974. The benthic fauna of soft bottoms, southern Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 73–123 [87, 102, 113] (in part).
—Hutchings, P. 1977. Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidiae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 1–38 [25] (in part).
—Amoureux, L. 1984. Brief notes on two small collections of Polychaetes from Queensland, with two new records for Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 95: 7–9 [8].
—Hutchings, P.A., Ward, T.J., Waterhouse, J.H. & Walker, L. 1993. Infauna of marine sediments and seagrass beds of Upper Spencer Gulf near Port Pirie, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 117: 1–14 [11].

as Terebellides variety.
—Williams, S.J. 1984. The status of Terebellides stroemi (Polychaeta; Trichobranchidae) as a cosmopolitan species, based on a worldwide morphological survey, including description of new species. pp. 118–142 in Hutchings, P.A. (ed). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1983. Sydney : The Linnean Society of New South Wales 483 pp. [119–121].

 

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 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 10-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)