Species Neanthes kerguelensis (McIntosh, 1885)

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• Nereis (Neanthes) kerguelensis McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 12: 1-554 [225-227].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (Dredged off Kerguelen Islands, in 10 to 100 fathoms (~18 to 180 metres)), Kerguelen Islands, southern Indian Ocea.
• Nereis kerguelensis oligodonta Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65-304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Band 4, Lieferung 5. [164-166] [as Nereis kerguelensis var. oligodonta].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mediterranean Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Subantarctic Islands
  • Kerguélen Island

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Neotropical Region

• Falkland Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Associated with encrusting fauna, intertidal to 115 m depth.

 

Citations

Nereis (Neanthes) kerguelensis.
—Ehlers, E. 1897. Polychetaen. Hamburg : Hamburger Magalhaenischen Sammelreise 1–148 pp. [65, pl., figs 81–93].
—Ehlers, E. 1901. Die Anneliden der Sammlung Plate. Fauna Chilens. Zool. Jahrb. Jena, Suppl. 5: 251–272 [260].
—Ehlers, E. 1901. Die Polychaeten des magellanischen und chilenischen Strandes. Ein faunisticher Versuch. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1901: 1–232 [105].
—Ehlers, E. 1907. Neuseeländische Anneliden. II. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 5: 1–31 [11].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [164].
—Fauvel, P. 1914. Annélides polychètes non pélagiques provenant des campagnes de l'Hirondelle et de la Princesse-Alice (1885–1910). Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Iere Prince souverain de Monaco 46: 1–432 [167, pl. 12, figs 1–4].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [203–204].
—Augener, H. 1924. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 18. Polychaeta II. Polychäten von Neuseeland I: Errantia. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 75: 241–441 [330].
—Augener, H. 1927. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 38. Polychaeten von Südost und Süd-Australien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 83: 71–275 [134–137].
—Augener, H. 1927. Die Polychaeten der Sammlung Thilenius von Neuseeland und Samoa. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 13: 338–363 [346].

Neanthes kerguelensis.
—Hartman, O. 1967. Polychaetous annelids collected by the USNS Eltanin and Staten Island cruises, chiefly from Antaractic seas. Allan Hancock Foundation Monographs in Marine Biology 2: 1–327 [64].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1982. The Nereididae of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 106: 93–144 [113].
—Wilson, R.S. 1984. Neanthes (Polychaeta: Nereididae) from Victoria with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 96: 209–226 [216–218, fig. 3].

Misidentifications

as Platynereis australis.
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [28] (in part).

 

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