Polychaeta taxon details
original description
Knox, G. A. and Cameron, D. B. 1971. Port Phillip Bay Survey 1957-1963, Victoria, Australia. Part 2(4) Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 32: 21-42., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39191497 [details]
status source
Elgetany, Asmaa H.; van Rensburg, Hendré; Hektoen, Martin; Matthee, Conrad; Budaeva, Nataliya; Simon, Carol A. & Struck, Torsten H. (2020). Species delineation in the speciation grey zone—The case of Diopatra (Annelida, Onuphidae). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 49(4): 516-534., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/zsc.12421 note: examining exhaustively whether the Australian Diopatra aciculata is a junior synonym of D. neapolitana [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Elgetany et al. (2020) examine exhaustively whether the Australian Diopatra aciculata (also reported for South Africa) is a junior synonym of D. neapolitana. They conclude it is closely related but distinct. [details]From other sources
Specimen Museum of Victoria, Melbourne [details]
Type locality Australia, Port Philllip Bay, Victoria [details]
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