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Boccardia wellingtonensis Read 1975

Description

Boccardia wellingtonensis Read, 1975

Type locality: Evans Bay marina, New Zealand; 41° 18.82’S, 174° 47.81’E; in organically enriched sand at low tide, associated with B. syrtis (Rainer, 1973).

Type material: Holotype: Z.W.1065; Paratype: Z.W.1066 National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand.

Location and author of most recently described material: 1) Read (1975) 2) part of re-Australian material identified as Boccardia polybranchia (Haswell, 1885) in Blake and Kudenov (1978); material from Macquarie Island and Kilcunda, Victoria (Simon et al. 2010).

Recorded distribution: Australia: Macquarie Island, Kilcunda, Victoria; New Zealand; Chile; Argentina (?); Brazil (?)

Other

Published as part of Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, pp. 40-62 in Zootaxa 2751 on page 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203565

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Spionidae
Genus
Boccardia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Spionida
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Read
Species
wellingtonensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Boccardia wellingtonensis Read, 1975 sec. Walker, 2011

References

  • Rainer, S. (1973) Polydora and related genera (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Otago waters. Journal the Royal Society of New Zealand, 3, 545 - 564.
  • Haswell, W. A. (1885) On a destructive parasite of the rock oyster. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 10, 272 - 275.
  • Blake, J. A. & Kudenov, J. D. (1978) The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, 171 - 280.
  • Simon, C. A., Worsfold, T. M., Lange, L. & Sterley, J. (2010) The genus Boccardia (Polychaeta: Spionidae) associated with mollusc shells on the south coast of South Africa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 90, 585 - 598.