WoRMS taxon details
Arenicola loveni sudaustraliense Stach, 1944
335368 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:335368)
accepted
Subspecies
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Stach, Leo W. (1944). Arenicola from southeastern Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 21(5): 272., available online at https://journals.australian.museum/stach-1944-rec-aust-mus-215-272278/ [details] Available for editors 
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Holotype AM W.3444, geounit Spencer Gulf
, Note Moreton Bay, Reevesby Island, Spencers Gulf,...
Holotype AM W.3444, geounit Spencer Gulf [details]
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Type locality Moreton Bay, Reevesby Island, Spencers Gulf, South Australia. -34.5167, 136.2667 (34° 31' S, 136° 16' E). Probably this is not accurate but is the data from Australian Museum catalogue record W.3444 at ALA. The geolocation given is offshore to the west of Reevesby Island, but this is clearly misleading as Stach figures and describes collecting from an intertidal sand flat location at 'Moreton Bay' at the north end of Reevesby Island. [details]
Taxonomy First reported by Ashworth, 1916 as Arenicola loveni based on specimens present in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide....
Taxonomy First reported by Ashworth, 1916 as Arenicola loveni based on specimens present in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide. He reports two specimens are from the Bay of Shoals, on the northeast coast of Kangaroo Island, and two are from Kingston, Lacepede Bay (lat. 36° 80' S, long. 139° 80' E). Subsequently Stach, 1944 created the subspecies 'sudaustraliense' (should have been 'sudaustraliensis' as Arenicola is feminine (or strictly is masculine) and definiitely not neuter). It is not clear from Stach where the type locality of his holotype (Australian Museum W.3444) came from but the Australian museum collection database gives the location as: Moreton Bay, Reevesby Island, Spencers Gulf, South Australia. -34.5167, 136.2667 (34° 31' S, 136° 16' E) collected December 1936. Wells, 1962 reviewed the differences reported for A. loveni sudaustraliense and was confident they were at subspecies level. The differences are in internal anatomy with 'sudaustraliense' consistently having a pair of preventricular dilations on the dorsal blood vessel and lacks longitudinal muscle outside the ventral nerve cord. Externally 'sudaustraliense' has a larger chaetiger 7 branchial pair (vestigial in A. loveni from Africa). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2026). World Polychaeta Database. Arenicola loveni sudaustraliense Stach, 1944. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=335368 on 2026-01-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Stach, Leo W. (1944). Arenicola from southeastern Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 21(5): 272., available online at https://journals.australian.museum/stach-1944-rec-aust-mus-215-272278/ [details] Available for editors [request]
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Ashworth, James Hartley. (1916). On the occurrence of Arenicola loveni, Kinberg on the coast of South Australia. <em>Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 40: 38-41., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35337567
note: Two specimens are from the Bay of Shoals, on the northeast coast of Kangaroo Island, and two are from Kingston, Lacepede Bay (lat. 36° 80’ S, long. 139° 80' E). [details]
taxonomy source Wells, G. P. 1962. The warm-water lugworms of the world (Arenicolidae, Polychaeta). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 138(3): 331-353., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb05703.x
page(s): 350; note: Compares the Australian subspecies with the nominal Aftrican species [details] Available for editors [request]
note: Two specimens are from the Bay of Shoals, on the northeast coast of Kangaroo Island, and two are from Kingston, Lacepede Bay (lat. 36° 80’ S, long. 139° 80' E). [details]
taxonomy source Wells, G. P. 1962. The warm-water lugworms of the world (Arenicolidae, Polychaeta). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 138(3): 331-353., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb05703.x
page(s): 350; note: Compares the Australian subspecies with the nominal Aftrican species [details] Available for editors
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Holotype AM W.3444, geounit Spencer Gulf [details]
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Spelling Subspecies 'sudaustraliense' spelling should have been 'sudaustraliensis' as Arenicola is a feminine noun (or strictly is masculine, but has been treated as feminine) and definitely is not neuter). WoRMS spelling has not been altered to the correct suffix as there are no recent usages of the name to determine its status with respect to Arenicola loveni. [details]Taxonomy First reported by Ashworth, 1916 as Arenicola loveni based on specimens present in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide. He reports two specimens are from the Bay of Shoals, on the northeast coast of Kangaroo Island, and two are from Kingston, Lacepede Bay (lat. 36° 80' S, long. 139° 80' E). Subsequently Stach, 1944 created the subspecies 'sudaustraliense' (should have been 'sudaustraliensis' as Arenicola is feminine (or strictly is masculine) and definiitely not neuter). It is not clear from Stach where the type locality of his holotype (Australian Museum W.3444) came from but the Australian museum collection database gives the location as: Moreton Bay, Reevesby Island, Spencers Gulf, South Australia. -34.5167, 136.2667 (34° 31' S, 136° 16' E) collected December 1936. Wells, 1962 reviewed the differences reported for A. loveni sudaustraliense and was confident they were at subspecies level. The differences are in internal anatomy with 'sudaustraliense' consistently having a pair of preventricular dilations on the dorsal blood vessel and lacks longitudinal muscle outside the ventral nerve cord. Externally 'sudaustraliense' has a larger chaetiger 7 branchial pair (vestigial in A. loveni from Africa). [details]
Type locality Moreton Bay, Reevesby Island, Spencers Gulf, South Australia. -34.5167, 136.2667 (34° 31' S, 136° 16' E). Probably this is not accurate but is the data from Australian Museum catalogue record W.3444 at ALA. The geolocation given is offshore to the west of Reevesby Island, but this is clearly misleading as Stach figures and describes collecting from an intertidal sand flat location at 'Moreton Bay' at the north end of Reevesby Island. [details]
