WoRMS taxon details
Polyophthalmus australis Grube, 1869
337039 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:337039)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Grube, A.E. (1869). Familie der Opheliaceen. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländischer Cultur.</em> 46: 59-68., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46562369
page(s): 61 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 61 [no figures] [details]
Note Australia, Cape York, Queensland
Unreviewed
Type locality Australia, Cape York, Queensland [details]
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed
Taxonomy Current taxon junior synonym of species listed [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Polyophthalmus australis Grube, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=337039 on 2025-09-11
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Nomenclature
original description
Grube, A.E. (1869). Familie der Opheliaceen. <em>Jahres-Bericht der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländischer Cultur.</em> 46: 59-68., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46562369
page(s): 61 [no figures] [details]
page(s): 61 [no figures] [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Augener, H. (1914). Polychaeta II: Sedentaria. pp. 1-72. In: Michaelsen, W. and Hartmeyer, R. (Eds.). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Volume 5. Gustav Fischer. Jena.
page(s): 37; note: to Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) [details]
status source Blake, James A.; Maciolek, Nancy J. (2020). 7.6.1 Opheliidae Malmgren, 1867. <em>[Book chapter].</em> In Handbook of Zoology. Annelida: Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria II; Purschke, Günter; Boggemann, Markus; Westheide, Wilfried Eds; De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany, 2020.
note: treated as a valid name [details]
page(s): 37; note: to Polyophthalmus pictus (Dujardin, 1839) [details]
status source Blake, James A.; Maciolek, Nancy J. (2020). 7.6.1 Opheliidae Malmgren, 1867. <em>[Book chapter].</em> In Handbook of Zoology. Annelida: Pleistoannelida, Sedentaria II; Purschke, Günter; Boggemann, Markus; Westheide, Wilfried Eds; De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany, 2020.
note: treated as a valid name [details]
Other
additional source
Willey, Arthur. (1905). Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. <em>Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar by W.A. Herdman, with supplementary reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon, by Other Naturalists. Part IV. Supplementary Reports.</em> 30: 243-324, plates I-VIII., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1936112
page(s): 289, plate V fig. 121 [details]
additional source Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218
page(s): 196-198, plate X fig. 3 [details]
page(s): 289, plate V fig. 121 [details]
additional source Grube, Adolph-Eduard. (1878). Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten Sammlungen. <em>Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.- Pétersbourg.</em> (série 7) 25(8): 1-300., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45379218
page(s): 196-198, plate X fig. 3 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
