WoRMS taxon details
Lysidice robusta Stimpson, 1855
336716 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:336716)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 385-394., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694499
page(s): 392, no figures; note: Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) [details]
page(s): 392, no figures; note: Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) [details]
Note Australia, Port Jackson, New South Wales
Type locality Australia, Port Jackson, New South Wales [details]
Taxonomic remark Current taxon was previously considered in the WoRMS database to be a junior synonym of Lysidice collaris Grube, 1868,...
Taxonomic remark Current taxon was previously considered in the WoRMS database to be a junior synonym of Lysidice collaris Grube, 1868, based on Augener (1922a: 40-41). Augener (1922b: 28-29) had revised specimens from Australia previously identified by Kinberg as Lysidice robusta, and considered that, in spite of the inadequacy of Stimpson's original description, that they could represent the same species. Furthermore, he adds: "Die L. collaris Gr. halte ich jetzt fär die gleiche Art, wie die robusta von Kinberg, da ich es nicht fär richtig halte, auf das Vorhandensein oder Fehlen des weissen Nackensegments allein einen Wert zur Artabtrennung zu legen. . . . Von Südwest-Australien als L. collaris angegeben, demnach um Australien herum verbreitet." [ "I now consider L. collaris Gr. to be the same species as Kinberg's robusta, as I do not consider it correct to attach any value to the presence or absence of the white neck segment alone for species separation. . . . From southwest Australia it is reported as L. collaris, thus distributed around Australia." (translated from German to English with Google Translate) ]. So, what Augener seems to state is that the previous Australian records of Lysidice gracilis and the specimens from the same region identified by Kinberg as L. robusta represent all the same species, probably the one originally described by Stimpson as L. robusta. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Lysidice robusta Stimpson, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=336716 on 2025-09-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Stimpson, W. (1855). Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7(10): 385-394., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1694499
page(s): 392, no figures; note: Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) [details]
page(s): 392, no figures; note: Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) [details]
Other
additional source
Day, J. H.; Hutchings, P. (1979). An annotated check-list of Australian and New Zealand Polychaeta, Archiannelida and Myzostomida. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 32(3): 80-161., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.32.1979.203
page(s): 117; note: Lysidice robusta as a valid species [details]
additional source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; Londoño-Mesa, Mario H. (2004). Lista de especies y bibliografía de poliquetos (Polychaeta) del Pacífico Oriental Tropical. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Serie Zoología.</em> 75(1): 9-97., available online at https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/zoo/article/view/7294
page(s): 23 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Augener, H. 1922. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 33. Polychaeten. Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar, 63(6): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41849960
page(s): 40-41; note: refers previous records of Lysidice collaris from Australia to Lysidice robusta [details]
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1922). Revision der australischen Polychaeten-Typen von Kinberg. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 14(8): 1-42., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6413310
page(s): 28-29 [details]
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1933). The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, conducted by Alf Wollebæk. VI. Polychaeten von den Galapagos-Inseln. <em>Meddelelser fra det Zoologiske Museum, Oslo.</em> 32: 55-66.
page(s): 61 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 320 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 117; note: Lysidice robusta as a valid species [details]
additional source Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I.; Londoño-Mesa, Mario H. (2004). Lista de especies y bibliografía de poliquetos (Polychaeta) del Pacífico Oriental Tropical. <em>Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Serie Zoología.</em> 75(1): 9-97., available online at https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/zoo/article/view/7294
page(s): 23 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Augener, H. 1922. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 33. Polychaeten. Kungliga Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar, 63(6): 1-49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41849960
page(s): 40-41; note: refers previous records of Lysidice collaris from Australia to Lysidice robusta [details]
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1922). Revision der australischen Polychaeten-Typen von Kinberg. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 14(8): 1-42., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6413310
page(s): 28-29 [details]
additional source Augener, Hermann. (1933). The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925, conducted by Alf Wollebæk. VI. Polychaeten von den Galapagos-Inseln. <em>Meddelelser fra det Zoologiske Museum, Oslo.</em> 32: 55-66.
page(s): 61 [details]
additional source Hartman, Olga. (1959). Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 and 2. <em>Allan Hancock Foundation Occasional Paper.</em> 23: 1-628.
page(s): 320 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Current taxon was previously considered in the WoRMS database to be a junior synonym of Lysidice collaris Grube, 1868, based on Augener (1922a: 40-41). Augener (1922b: 28-29) had revised specimens from Australia previously identified by Kinberg as Lysidice robusta, and considered that, in spite of the inadequacy of Stimpson's original description, that they could represent the same species. Furthermore, he adds: "Die L. collaris Gr. halte ich jetzt fär die gleiche Art, wie die robusta von Kinberg, da ich es nicht fär richtig halte, auf das Vorhandensein oder Fehlen des weissen Nackensegments allein einen Wert zur Artabtrennung zu legen. . . . Von Südwest-Australien als L. collaris angegeben, demnach um Australien herum verbreitet." [ "I now consider L. collaris Gr. to be the same species as Kinberg's robusta, as I do not consider it correct to attach any value to the presence or absence of the white neck segment alone for species separation. . . . From southwest Australia it is reported as L. collaris, thus distributed around Australia." (translated from German to English with Google Translate) ]. So, what Augener seems to state is that the previous Australian records of Lysidice gracilis and the specimens from the same region identified by Kinberg as L. robusta represent all the same species, probably the one originally described by Stimpson as L. robusta. [details]Unreviewed
Type locality Australia, Port Jackson, New South Wales [details]
