Species Paradyte crinoidicola (Potts, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Polynoe crinoidicola Potts, F.A. 1910. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Pt. 2. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 13: 325-353 [337].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ZK 1924.3.1.85, Maldives, Hulule.
• Scalisetosus longicirrus Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 507 pp. [50].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, N coast
  • Coral Sea Islands Territory
• Marshall Islands
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

• Hong Kong
• Malaysia
• Maldives

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Always commensal on crinoids (on 17 different species to date), has never been collected free living.

 

Citations

Scalisetosus crinoidicola.
—Horst, R. 1917. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part II Aphroditidae and Chrysopetalidae. Siboga-Expeditie, Leiden 24b: 1–143 [98, pl. 16 & 21].

Scalisetosus longicirrus.
—Day, J.H. 1962. Polychaeta from several localities in the western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 139: 627–656 [631].
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [58].
—Imajima, M. & Hartman, O. 1964. The polychaetous annelids of Japan. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 26: 1–452 [38].
—Gibbs, P.E. 1969. Aspects of polychaete ecology with particular reference to commensalism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 255: 443–458 [452].

Paradyte crinoidicola.
—Gibbs, P.E. 1971. The Polychaete fauna of the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 21(5): 101–211 [126].
—Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1991. Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Island and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. 9–82 in Crosnier, A. Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle A 8: 466 [13–15, fig. 1].

Adyte crinoidicola.
—Pettibone, M.H. 1969. Review of some species referred to Scalisetosus McIntosh (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 82: 1–30 [13,16]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)