WoRMS taxon details
Diopatra aciculata Knox & Cameron, 1971
326928 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:326928)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
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
page(s): 31, figs. 20-25 [details]
page(s): 31, figs. 20-25 [details]
Type locality contained in Port Phillip Bay
, Note Australia, Port Philllip Bay, Victoria
type locality contained in Port Phillip Bay [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Australia, Port Philllip Bay, Victoria [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Diopatra aciculata Knox & Cameron, 1971. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=326928 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
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
page(s): 31, figs. 20-25 [details]
page(s): 31, figs. 20-25 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Van Rensburg, H; Matthee, C. A.; Simon, Carol A. (2020). Moonshine worms (<i>Diopatra aciculata</i>: Onuphidae, Annelida) in the Knysna Estuary, South Africa; taxonomy and distribution. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 100(6): 897-907., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315420000740 [details] Available for editors 
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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]
[request]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]
Other
biology source
Schoeman, Stephanie.; Simon, Carol A. (2023). Live to Die Another Day: Regeneration in Diopatra aciculata Knox and Cameron, 1971 (Annelida: Onuphidae) Collected as Bait in Knysna Estuary, South Africa. <em>Biology.</em> 12(3): 483: 1-15., available online at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/12/3/483 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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]Unreviewed
Specimen Museum of Victoria, Melbourne [details]Type locality Australia, Port Philllip Bay, Victoria [details]
