Species Vermiliopsis infundibulum (Linnaeus, 1788)

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Species Vermiliopsis infundibulum (Linnaeus, 1788)

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

Serpula infundibulum Linnaeus, C. 1788. Systema Naturae. Leipzig : Gmelin. [34745].
Type data:
Status unknown, Indian Ocean.
Vermilia pluriannulata Moore, J.P. & Bush, K.J. 1904. Sabellidae & Serpulidae from Japan, with descriptions of new species of Spirorbis. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 56: 157-179 [171-173].
Type data:
Status unknown, Suruga Bay, Japan.
Vermilia ctenophora Moore, J.P. & Bush, K.J. 1904. Sabellidae & Serpulidae from Japan, with descriptions of new species of Spirorbis. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 56: 157-179 [169-171].
Type data:
Status unknown, Suruga Bay, Japan.
Vermiliopsis glandigerus Gravier, C. 1908. Contribution à l'étude des Annélides polychètes de la Mer Rouge (suite). Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4(10): 67-168 [121].
Type data:
Status unknown, Red Sea.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Hutchings, P.A. & Johnson, R.T. 2011. Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1834, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd (Harry ten Hove (ms) states that this is one of the most difficult complexes of serpulids. Even after studying about 1000 specimens from all over the world, including many of the types, he has not been able to find a general pattern. A distribution as broad as from the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Australia is unlikely. For the time being he considers all names given in the selected synonymy as belonging to one and the same species. It remains unresolved if this is the same as the Mediterranean Vermiliopsis infundibulum sensu stricto)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-(sub-)tropical distribution.

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), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast

Palaearctic Region

Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Down to 92 m depth.

Citations

Vermiliopsis glandigerus.
—Monro, C.C.A. 1939. Polychaeta. Reports of the British and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-1931 (Zoology and Botany) B 4: 87–156.
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [467, fig. 242].

Vermiliopsis ctenophora.
—Imajima, M. & Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 26: 1–452 [374].

Vermiliopsis infundibulum.
—Straughan, D. 1967. Some Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Heron Island, Queensland. Papers from the Heron Island Research Station, University of Queensland 1: 27–45 [35].

Misidentifications

as Vermiliopsis pygidialis.
—Dew, B. 1958. Variations in the secondary operculum of the Australian representatives of the polychaete worm Hydroides norvegica Gunnerus and notes on a polychaete worm recovered from the aquarium at Taronga Zoological Park. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1956–57: 52–57.
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [232–233].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Some Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Heron Island, Queensland. Papers from the Heron Island Research Station, University of Queensland 1: 27–45.