WoRMS taxon details
Armandia paraintermedia Parapar & Moreira, 2015
862734 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:862734)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Parapar, Julio; Moreira, Juan. (2015). Six new species of the genus <em>Armandia </em>Filippi, 1861 (Polychaeta, Opheliidae) from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 577-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.19
page(s): 590-595, figs. 1E, 10A-I, 11A-F, 12A-F, 18B [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 590-595, figs. 1E, 10A-I, 11A-F, 12A-F, 18B [details] Available for editors
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Holotype AM W.44243, geounit Australia
, Note Vicki's Reef, Lizard Island, Great Barrier...
Holotype AM W.44243, geounit Australia [details]
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Type locality Vicki's Reef, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia (14º41'17''S, 145º26'35''E), 9 m, calcareous algae. [details]
Depth range intertidal to 24 m depth.
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Australia (Queensland, Great Barrier Reef: Lizard Island, North Direction Island, and Yonge Reef); ?American...
Etymology The specific epithet paraintermedia is composed by the Greek prefix para-, meaning 'beside' or 'near', and the specific...
Depth range intertidal to 24 m depth. [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Australia (Queensland, Great Barrier Reef: Lizard Island, North Direction Island, and Yonge Reef); ?American...
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Australia (Queensland, Great Barrier Reef: Lizard Island, North Direction Island, and Yonge Reef); ?American Samoa. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet paraintermedia is composed by the Greek prefix para-, meaning 'beside' or 'near', and the specific...
Etymology The specific epithet paraintermedia is composed by the Greek prefix para-, meaning 'beside' or 'near', and the specific epithet of Armandia intermedia Fauvel, 1902, and refers to the morphological similarity between the two species. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Armandia paraintermedia Parapar & Moreira, 2015. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=862734 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Parapar, Julio; Moreira, Juan. (2015). Six new species of the genus <em>Armandia </em>Filippi, 1861 (Polychaeta, Opheliidae) from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4019(1): 577-603., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.19
page(s): 590-595, figs. 1E, 10A-I, 11A-F, 12A-F, 18B [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 590-595, figs. 1E, 10A-I, 11A-F, 12A-F, 18B [details] Available for editors
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Magalhães, Wagner F.; Rizzo, Alexandra E.; Bailey-Brock, Julie H. (2019). Opheliidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from the western Pacific islands, including five new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4555(2): 209-235., available online at https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4555.2.3
page(s): 218, fig. 7A-D; note: specimens from American Samoa tentatively identified as Armandia cf. paraintermedia [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 218, fig. 7A-D; note: specimens from American Samoa tentatively identified as Armandia cf. paraintermedia [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype AM W.44243, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.2381, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.43901, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.44107, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.44112, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.44113, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.44238, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.44550, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.44556, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.45130, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.45131, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.45217, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.45218, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.45409, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.47325, geounit Australia [details]
Paratype AM W.47326, geounit Australia [details]
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Depth range intertidal to 24 m depth. [details]Diagnosis "Parapodia biramous, with prechaetal lobe, ventral lobe and small dorsal cirrus on each parapodium; prechaetal lobe asymmetrical provided with a ventrally displaced tip. Anal tube about as long as wide, squareshaped; opening at posterior margin with a long ventral incision, provided with one long internal anal cirrus, thick at base and distally tapered, projecting outwardly; posterior margin provided with 3 pairs of elongate, finger-like, paired anal cirri, almost as long as total anal tube length, thinner than pair of basal cirri." (Parapar & Moreira, 2015: 590). [details]
Distribution Pacific Ocean: Australia (Queensland, Great Barrier Reef: Lizard Island, North Direction Island, and Yonge Reef); ?American Samoa. [details]
Etymology The specific epithet paraintermedia is composed by the Greek prefix para-, meaning 'beside' or 'near', and the specific epithet of Armandia intermedia Fauvel, 1902, and refers to the morphological similarity between the two species. [details]
Habitat Sand, coral rubble, calcareous algae, sponges and coral sand. Specimens from American Samoa from intertidal muddy sediments. [details]
Type locality Vicki's Reef, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia (14º41'17''S, 145º26'35''E), 9 m, calcareous algae. [details]
