Chloeia macleayi Haswell, 1879 Indeterminable

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Chloeia macleayi Haswell, 1879 Indeterminable

Chloeia macleayi Haswell, 1879: 345–346 ; Hartman, 1959: 131.

Type locality. Cape Sidmouth (13°24'50.1" S, 143°35'41.5" E) in northeastern Australia .

Type material. Lost ( Day & Hutchings 1979: 94).

Remarks. Haswell (1879: 345) described the species with one specimen from Cape Sidmouth, Northeastern Australia. He noted the median antennae had a discontinuous black stripe, that the second chaetiger had a large black spot on its ventral surface, and that branchiae, starting from chaetiger 4, had black stems and pale branches. For the dorsal pigmentation, he indicated “one indistinct, broad, oblique, dark band internal to the branchiae; and in the centre, two obscure dark spots, one behind the other” ( Haswell 1879:345–346), and that dorsal cirri had a similar pigmentation as the median antenna. With these details, it cannot be inserted in the key to species above.

This might be close to C. amphora Horst, 1910 , and to C. bimaculata Wang et al. 2019 , but because there are no type material and the description is incomplete, it must be regarded as indeterminable.