Species Isolda pulchella F. Müller, 1858

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isolda pulchella Müller, F. 1858. Einiges über die Annelidenfauna der Insel Santa Catharina an der brasilianischen Küste. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 24: 211-220 [219].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 5161 specimen lost, St Catherine Island, Brazil.
• Isolda warnebroensis Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta Sedentaria. pp. 1-172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 pp. 1-700. [82-87].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Warnbro Sound, Western Australia.
• Isolda sibogae Caullery, M. 1944. Polychètes sedentaire de l'Expedition du SIBOGA: Ariciidae, Spionidae, Chaetopteridae, Chloraemidae, Opheliidae, Oweniidae, Sabellaridae, Sternaspidae, Amphictenidae, Ampharetidae, Terebellidae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 24(2): 1-204 [102].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, East Indies.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

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), 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

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • North Carolina

Neotropical Region

• Brazil

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, mud bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sometimes associated with Posidonia, found down to 66 m depth.

 

Citations

Isolda pulchella.
—Augener, H. 1918. Polychaeta. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Meeresfauna Westafrikas 2: 67–625 [517, pl. 7, fig. 229, text fig. 88].
—Day, J.H. 1963. The polychaete fauna of South Africa Part 8. New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 10: 381–445 [434–435].
—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) [691–692, fig. 35.1 k–n].
—Day, J.H. 1973. New polychaeta from Beaufort, with a key to all species recorded from North Carolina. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Technical Report NMFS CIRC 375. Seattle : National Marine Fisheries Sevice Vol. xiii 1–140 pp. [113, fig. 15d–f].
—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 [114].
—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 [3–4].
—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 [88].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1989. Teil 14. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen und subtropisch-tropischen Küste Südost-Australiens zwischen Lakes Entrance (Victoria) im Süden und Maclean (New South Wales) im Norden. 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. 11–63 pp. [48].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1990. Teil 15. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen und tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) im Süden und Gladstone (Queensland) im Norden. 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. 41–87 pp. [76].

Misidentifications

as Isolda cf. pulchella.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland 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. 75–218 pp. [146].

 

History of changes

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