| NIWA Guide to Polychaeta | Shore polychaetes | Pick shore family | Shell polychaetes |
Blake, J.A.;Kudenov, J.D. (1978).
The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Mem. Nat. Mus. Vic. 39: 171-280.
Relevant content: Record for Australia.
Lewis, J.B. (1998).
Reproduction, larval development and functional relationships of the burrowing, spionid polychaete Dipolydora armata with the calcareous hydrozoan Millepora complanata. Marine Biology 130: 651-662.
Relevant content: Dipolydora armata burrowing in the calcareous hydrozoan Millepora complanata on coral reefs at Barbados, West Indies. It excavates complex networks of interconnecting burrows and forms aggregations of worms in cavities. Larvae described.
Radashevsky, V.I.;Nogueira, J.M. (2003).
Life history, morphology and distribution of Dipolydora armata (Polychaeta: Spionidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83: 375-384.
Relevant content: Dipolydora armata. Includes NZ material from Haliotis iris
Sato-Okoshi, W. (1999).
Polydorid species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Japan, with descriptions of morphology, ecology and burrow structure. 1. Boring species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 79: 831-848.
Relevant content: 13 boring species of spionid polychaetes were extracted from 28 different calcareous substrata (I.e. mollusc shells, coralline algae and barnacle tests) from japan. The spionids included D. armata. All of them inhabited self-excavated burrows in living and/or migratory calcareous substrata and they were never found from soft sediments. Burrow structures were species-specific. Dipolydora species excavated more varied, distinct burrows.
Sinclair, M. (1963).
Studies on the Paua, Haliotis iris Martyn, in the Wellington District, 1945-1946. Zoology publications from Victoria University of Wellingto : 1-16.
Relevant content: Notes on epibiota p12 - commonest is P. monilaris [now P. armata].
Some biological information might be found in the Dipolydora armata taxonomic literature.
Page last generated by G. Read, 11/09/2004 (dd/mm/yy)