Species Chaetopterus variopedatus (Renier, 1804)
Parchment Tube Worm
- Tricoelia variopedatus Renier, S.A. 1804. Prospetto della Classe dei Vermi, nominati e ordinati secondo il Sistema di Bosc. 1-38 pp. [18].
Type data:
Holotype Italy. - Chaetopterus luteus Stimpson, W. 1855. Description of new marine invertebrates. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 385-395 [391].
Type data:
Status unknown, Port Jackson, New South Wales. - Chaetopterus macropus Schmarda, L.K. 1861. Neue Turbellarian, Rotatorien und Anneliden beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise un die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite halfte). Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann pp. 1-164. [17-18].
Type data:
Status unknown, New South Wales. - Chaetopterus variopedatus macropus 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. [45-48] [as Chaetopterus variopedatus var. macropus].
- Chaetopterus lutrens Whitelegge, T. 1889. List of the Marine and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of Port Jackson and the Neighbourhood. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 23: 163-323 [201].
Type data:
Status unknown, Port Jackson, NSW. - Chaetopterus cautus Marenzeller, E. von 1879. Südjapanische Anneliden I. (Amphinomea, Aphroditea, Lycoridea, Phyllodocea, Hesionea, Syllidea, Eunicea, Glycerea, Sternaspidea, Chaetopterea, Cirratulea, Amphictenea). Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 41: 109-154 [143].
Type data:
Status unknown, Japan. - Chaetopterus longimanus Crossland, C. 1904. The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901–1902. The Polychaeta, Pt 3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(3): 289-330 [272].
Type data:
Status unknown, Maldives. - Chaetopterus longipes Crossland, C. 1904. The marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901–1902. The Polychaeta, Pt 3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1904(3): 289-330 [277].
Type data:
Status unknown, Maldives. - Chaetopterus appendiculatus Grube, A.-E. 1874. Descriptiones Annulatorum novorum mare Ceylonicum habitantium ab honoratissime Holdsworth collectorum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1874: 325-329 [328].
Type data:
Status unknown, Ceylon. - Chaetopterus takahashii Izuka, A. 1911. On the genus Chaetopterus, in Japan. Dobutsugako Zasshi, Tokyo (Journal of the Zoological Society of Japan) 23: 431-435 [in Japanese] [434].
Type data:
Status unknown, Japan. - Chaetopterus kagosimensis Izuka, A. 1911. On the genus Chaetopterus, in Japan. Dobutsugako Zasshi, Tokyo (Journal of the Zoological Society of Japan) 23: 431-435 [in Japanese] [435].
Type data:
Status unknown, Japan.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan, occurs in most NSW estuaries.
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25), 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), 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, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast
Ecological Descriptors
Estuary, intertidal, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Intertidal to 20 m depth.
Citations
Chaetopterus variopedatus.
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [15].
—Fauvel, P. 1927. Faune de France Vol. 16 Polychètes sedentaires. Addenda aux Errantes, Archiannélides, Myzostomaires. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–494 pp. [77, fig. 26].
—Pope, E.C. 1946. Chaetopterus, a strange and beautiful worm. Australian Museum Magazine 9: 87–92 [87–92].
—Imajima, M. & Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 26: 1–452 [291–292].
—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 [187].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [33].
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [774–775].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1984. The Spionidae of South Australia (Annelida: Polychaeta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 1–20 [63].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1985. Teil 11. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen Südküste Australiens (zwischen Port Lincoln im Westen und Port Augusta im Osten). 61–99 in Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 82 [83].
General References
Hutchings, P.A. & Recher, H.F. 1974. The fauna of Careel Bay with comments on the eceology of mangrove and seagrass communities. The Australian Zoologist 18(2): 99-128 [105] (as Chaetopterus sp.)
History of changes
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