Australian Museum Journal Nephtyidae (Polychaeta: Errantia) from Australia
- Shortform:
- Rainer and Hutchings, 1977, Rec. Aust. Mus. 31(8): 307–347
- Author(s):
- Rainer, S.; Hutchings, Pat
- Year published:
- 1977
- Title:
- Nephtyidae (Polychaeta: Errantia) from Australia
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 8
- Start page:
- 307
- End page:
- 347
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.31.1977.216
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 31 December 1977
- Cover date:
- 31 December 1977
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- POLYCHAETA; TAXONOMY
- Digitized:
- 17 December 2008
- Available online:
- 23 January 2009
- Reference number:
- 216
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (87kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2917kb PDF)
Abstract
The Australian Nephtyidae are represented by 13 species in four genera, Aglaophamus (4 species), Inermonephtys (1 sp.), Micronephthys (1 sp.) and Nephtys (7 spp.). Five new species are described, Aglaophamus gippslandicus n.sp., A. profundus n.sp., Nephtys inornata n.sp., N. mesobranchia n.sp., and N. semiverrucosa n.sp. Nephtys vikingensis Paxton, 1974 is synonymised with N. longipes Stimpson, 1856 and Micronephthys sphaerocirrata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949) is recorded from Australia for the first time. Descriptions are provided for all species examined.