WoRMS taxon details
Rhinothelepus lobatus Hutchings, 1974
331500 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:331500)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Hutchings, Patricia. (1974). Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 98(4): 175-195., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35075072
page(s): 192-193, fig. 6A-B [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 192-193, fig. 6A-B [details] Available for editors

Holotype AM W.5234, geounit Australia
, Note Australia, New South Wales, Wallis Lake, south...
Holotype AM W.5234, geounit Australia [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Australia, New South Wales, Wallis Lake, south of Godwin Island and opposite Wallis Island (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -32.1993º, long. 152.5107º). [details]
Depth range Shallow water.
Distribution Australia: New South Wales (Newcastle; Pittwater; Port Hacking; Wallis Lake).
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet lobatus is a Latin adjective meaning 'having lobes' or 'lobate', and presumably refers to...
Depth range Shallow water. [details]
Distribution Australia: New South Wales (Newcastle; Pittwater; Port Hacking; Wallis Lake).
Distribution Australia: New South Wales (Newcastle; Pittwater; Port Hacking; Wallis Lake). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet lobatus is a Latin adjective meaning 'having lobes' or 'lobate', and presumably refers to...
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet lobatus is a Latin adjective meaning 'having lobes' or 'lobate', and presumably refers to the Tetacular lobe extended to form a U-shaped tongue-like projection which is bent dorsally (Hutchings, 1974: 192). [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2025). World Polychaeta Database. Rhinothelepus lobatus Hutchings, 1974. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=331500 on 2025-04-05
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Hutchings, Patricia. (1974). Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 98(4): 175-195., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35075072
page(s): 192-193, fig. 6A-B [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 192-193, fig. 6A-B [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
redescription
Nogueira, João Miguel de Matos; Carrerette, Orlemir; Hutchings, Pat; Fitzhugh, Kirk. (2018). Systematic review of the species of the family Telothelepodidae Nogueira, Fitzhugh & Hutchings, 2013 (Annelida, Terebelliformia), with descriptions of three new species. <em>Marine Biology Research.</em> 1-41 [online before print, 19 Jan 2018]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2017.1401729
page(s): 29-31, figs. 20-22; note: redescription based on holotype and paratypes [details]
page(s): 29-31, figs. 20-22; note: redescription based on holotype and paratypes [details]





From editor or global species database
Depth range Shallow water. [details]Distribution Australia: New South Wales (Newcastle; Pittwater; Port Hacking; Wallis Lake). [details]
Etymology Not stated. The specific epithet lobatus is a Latin adjective meaning 'having lobes' or 'lobate', and presumably refers to the Tetacular lobe extended to form a U-shaped tongue-like projection which is bent dorsally (Hutchings, 1974: 192). [details]
Habitat Sandy-mud clay with sparce Halophila or Zostera beds, at shallow water. [details]
Type locality Australia, New South Wales, Wallis Lake, south of Godwin Island and opposite Wallis Island (geocoordinates not provided, estimated with gazetteer to be approximately lat. -32.1993º, long. 152.5107º). [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhinothelepus lobatus)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Rhinothelepus lobatus Hutchings, 1974; paratype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3538472)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhinothelepus lobatus)
To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To NHMUK collection (Rhinothelepus lobatus Hutchings, 1974; paratype; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3538472)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Annelida Collection (1 record)