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Benham, William B. (1916). Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. ''Endeavour'' on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Part II. Fisheries: Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. ''Endeavour'', 1909-14. H.C. Dannevig. Sydney. 4(2): 127-162, plates XLVI-XLVIII.
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Benham, William B.
1916
Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. ''Endeavour'' on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Part II.
Fisheries: Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. ''Endeavour'', 1909-14.
H.C. Dannevig. Sydney. 4(2): 127-162, plates XLVI-XLVIII
Publication
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb)
[Introduction starts as:]
Having now completed the examination of the worms obtained during the cruise of the "Endeavour," it will be convenient to summarise the results of my work, which will entail to some extent a repetition of the introductory remarks in Part I. There it was noted that the "Challenger" obtained fifteen species of Polychaetes in the area covered by the cruise of the "Endeavour," of which twelve were new to science.
The present collection contains forty-one species, including a fragment of a species of Sigalion, an indeterminable fragment of a species of Phyllodocid, and a species of Halodora, to which I have been unable to assign a name. Of these forty-one, five were obtained previously in this region; seventeen species hitherto recorded in various other parts of the world are now added to the southern Australian fauna; and I have found it necessary to make sixteen new species, one or two of which may, however, be merely varieties of already known forms; and to erect one new genus for a Nereid, namely Cheilonereis.
Having now completed the examination of the worms obtained during the cruise of the "Endeavour," it will be convenient to summarise the results of my work, which will entail to some extent a repetition of the introductory remarks in Part I. There it was noted that the "Challenger" obtained fifteen species of Polychaetes in the area covered by the cruise of the "Endeavour," of which twelve were new to science.
The present collection contains forty-one species, including a fragment of a species of Sigalion, an indeterminable fragment of a species of Phyllodocid, and a species of Halodora, to which I have been unable to assign a name. Of these forty-one, five were obtained previously in this region; seventeen species hitherto recorded in various other parts of the world are now added to the southern Australian fauna; and I have found it necessary to make sixteen new species, one or two of which may, however, be merely varieties of already known forms; and to erect one new genus for a Nereid, namely Cheilonereis.
Australia
Systematics, Taxonomy
Asychis victoriae Benham, 1916 (original description)
Cheilonereis Benham, 1916 (original description)
Cheilonereis peristomialis Benham, 1916 (original description)
Notomastus eisigi Benham, 1916 accepted as Capitellethus dispar (Ehlers, 1907) (original description)
Ophelia dannevigi Benham, 1916 (original description)
Scione harrissoni Benham, 1916 accepted as Nicolea cetrata (Ehlers, 1887) accepted as Pista cetrata (Ehlers, 1887) (original description)
Cheilonereis Benham, 1916 (original description)
Cheilonereis peristomialis Benham, 1916 (original description)
Notomastus eisigi Benham, 1916 accepted as Capitellethus dispar (Ehlers, 1907) (original description)
Ophelia dannevigi Benham, 1916 (original description)
Scione harrissoni Benham, 1916 accepted as Nicolea cetrata (Ehlers, 1887) accepted as Pista cetrata (Ehlers, 1887) (original description)
Diagnosis
Original diagnosis by Benham (1916: 138): ''The peristomium is produced laterally and ventrally to form a large, ... [details]
Editor's comment
Benham includes Praxilla abyssorum, Mcintosh, (Chall. Rep., Zool., xii.,1885, p. 408) as a synonym of his new ... [details]
Etymology
Cheilonereis is composed by the Greek noun cheilos, meaning 'lip', and the name of the genus Nereis Linnaeus, 1758, ... [details]
Type locality
Based on anterior fragment from lower slope depths off Victoria, Australia. [details]
Type locality
Great Australian Bight, Australia, approx 35 S, 129.46 E, also New Zealand, location unstated. Benham's principal ... [details]
Type material
Benham (1916) did not designate a holotype, but he described one Australian-origin specimen extensively, and also ... [details]
