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Glasby, Christopher J.; Hocknull, Shona. (2010). New records and a new species of Hermundura Müller, 1858, the senior synonym of Loandalia Monro, 1936 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Pilargidae) from northern Australia and New Guinea. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. 26: 57-67.
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Glasby, Christopher J.; Hocknull, Shona
2010
New records and a new species of <i>Hermundura</i> Müller, 1858, the senior synonym of <i>Loandalia</i> Monro, 1936 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Pilargidae) from northern Australia and New Guinea.
The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
26: 57-67
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyD)
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The Principle of Priority (ICZN 1999) is applied in resurrecting the generic name Hermundura Müller, 1858 for pilargid polychaetes (Annelida) formerly referred to as Loandalia Monro, 1936 and Parandalia Emerson & Fauchald, 1971. All available specimens of Hermundura from northern Australia and New Guinea are described based on material held in the collections of Australia’s natural history museums. Our study recognises two species, H. gladstonensis (Marks & Hocknull, 2006) comb. nov. and a new species, H. philipi sp. nov., from near Mornington Island in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. The former species is redescribed, and new information on intraspecific variability is provided, including the presence of hardened, cuticular structures and a muscle band (sphincter) of the anterior alimentary canal. Analysis of these structures has led to a re-evaluation of the so-called ‘jaws’ of the closely related monotypic genus Talehsapia Fauvel, 1932, and the conclusion that they are homologous with the pharyngeal sphincter of Hermundura. Talehsapia therefore is also synonymised with Hermundura. The genus Hermundura now contains 17 species including the type species, Hermundura tricuspis Müller, 1858, H. philipi sp. nov., and fifteen others, which are all new name combinations, viz. Hermundura annandalei (Fauvel, 1932), H. aberrans (Monro, 1936), H. fauveli (Berkeley & Berkeley, 1941), H. americana (Hartman, 1947), H. gracilis (Hartmann-Schröder, 1959), H. indica (Thomas, 1963), H. ocularis (Emerson & Fauchald, 1971), H. maculata (Intes & Le Loeuff, 1975), H. bennei (Solís-Weiss, 1983), H. riojai (Salazar-Vallejo, 1986), H. vivianneae (Salazar-Vallejo & Reyes Barragán, 1986), H. evelinae (León-González, 1991), H. salazarvallejoi (León-González, 1991), H. fredrayorum (Marks & Hocknull, 2006) and H. gladstonensis (Marks & Hocknull, 2006). The genus Hermundura appears to be restricted to the tropics and subtropics, both in Australia and globally.
Australia
Systematics, Taxonomy
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Hermundura Müller, 1858 (status source)
Parandalia Emerson & Fauchald, 1971 accepted as Hermundura Müller, 1858 (status source)
Parandalia Emerson & Fauchald, 1971 accepted as Hermundura Müller, 1858 (status source)
Depth range
From lower intertidal zone to about 20 m. [details]
Distribution
Sahul Shelf, including northern Australia (Northern Territory and northern part of Western Australia) and eastern ... [details]
Distribution
Australia: southern Gulf of Carpentaria (Queensland). [details]
Etymology
The species is named in honour of Philip Marks, the junior author’s father. [details]
Habitat
In soft sediments, intertidal to subtidal depths. It was not found in the higher intertidal zone under the mangrove ... [details]
Synonymy
Salazar-Vallejo (1990) established Hermundura was a senior synonym first of Parandalia, and later (1998) of ... [details]
Type locality
North of Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland (Australia), 15°59.4486’S, 139°53.346’E, 37.8 m. [details]
