NIWA Guide to Polychaeta | Shore polychaetes | Pick shore family | Shell polychaetes

Synonymy of Pectinaria australis

(Relevant original names and New Zealand records only)

Pectinaria australis as:    Pectinaria (Lagis) australis
  Name used as: New entity (basionym) by:  Ehlers 1904 (pages 56-58, illus. Pl.8,fig.6-12.)
  Record locality: Lyttelton
  Remarks: collected by Suter. Figures are ant body, scaphe and chaetae
  [Basionym for this record: Pectinaria (Lagis) australis Ehlers 1904]

Pectinaria australis as:    Lagis australis
  Name used as: Record for New Zealand by:  Augener 1926 (pages 210-212, illus. no figures.)
  Record locality: Lyttelton
  Remarks: No fig. In part repeat record - Lyttelton (Museum Gottingen) plus NEW from Albatross Point (35 fath) (W. North Island)
  [Basionym for this record: Pectinaria (Lagis) australis Ehlers 1904]

Pectinaria australis as:    Pectinaria (Pectinaria) australis
  Name used as: Material-based revision or review by:  Nilsson 1928 (pages 81-83, illus. None..)
  Record locality: Sumner; Lyttelton
  Remarks: Specimens from Sumner and Lyttelton, collected H. Suter, probably the same as already examined by Ehlers. Note the placement in subgenus Pectinaria.
  [Basionym for this record: Pectinaria (Lagis) australis Ehlers 1904]

Pectinaria australis as:    Pectinaria australis
  Name used as: Record for New Zealand by:  Estcourt 1967 (pages 77, illus. None..)
  Record locality: Heathcote Estuary, Christchurch
  Remarks: Brief record with comment that 'specimens had 9-13 pairs of paleae and 3 to 5 pairs of scaphal setae' (Ehlers 10 and 4 respectively)
  [Basionym for this record: Pectinaria (Lagis) australis Ehlers 1904]

Back to Pectinaria australis

Last generated by G. Read, 13/09/2004 (dd/mm/yy)