WoRMS taxon details
original description
Straughan, Dale. (1967). Some Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Heron Island, Queensland. <em>University of Queensland Papers [Great Barrier Reef Committee, Heron Island Research Station].</em> 1(2): 27-45. page(s): 39; note: from Heron Island, Queensland [details]
original description
(of Spirobranchus dennisdevaneyi Bailey-Brock, 1985) Bailey-Brock, J.H. 1985. Polychaetes from Fijian coral reefs. Pacific Science, 39(2): 195-220. [details]
additional source
Fiege, Dieter; Sun, Ruiping. (1999). Polychaeta from Hainan Island, South China Sea. Part 1. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta, Serpulidae). <em>Senckenbergiana biologica.</em> 79(2), 109-141. [details]
additional source
Kupriyanova, Elena; Sun, Yanan; ten Hove, Harry A.; Wong, Eunice; Rouse, Greg W. (2015). Serpulidae (Annelida) of Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 275-353., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.13 page(s): 329; note: records and body figure for Lizard Island [details]
redescription
Hove, Harry A. ten and Nishi, Eijiroh 1996. A redescription of the Indo-West Pacific Spirobranchus corrugatus Straughan, 1967 (Serpulida, Polychaeta), and an alternative hypothesis on the nature of a group of Middle Miocene microfossils from Poland. Beaufortia 46(5): 83-96. [details]
From editor or global species database
Specimen Australian Museum, Sydney AM 4071 [details]
Taxonomy Briefly first described from very small specimens and previously considered an uncertain species, but Kupriyanova et al (2015) note that "In fresh material a very diagnostic feature is the intensely red band of single lensed ocelli in the ventral edge of the opercular ampulla immediately below the calcareous endplate" They note the operculum can be flat but more often has 10–20 radiating ridges. Straughan originally had illustrated the ridges without text comment beyond that the operculum was 'ridged' [details]
Type locality Australia, Heron Island, Queensland [details]
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