Boccardia wellingtonensis Read, 1975

Walker, Lexie M, 2011, A review of the current status of the Polydora - complex (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in Australia and a checklist of recorded species, Zootaxa 2751, pp. 40-62 : 49

Boccardia wellingtonensis Read, 1975

Type locality: Evans Bay marina, New Zealand; 41° 18.82’S, 174° 47.81’E; in organically enriched sand at low tide, associated with B. syrtis ( Rainer, 1973) .

Type material: Holotype: Z.W.1065; Paratype: Z.W.1066 National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand.

Location and author of most recently described material: 1) Read (1975) 2) part of re-Australian material identified as Boccardia polybranchia ( Haswell, 1885) in Blake and Kudenov (1978); material from Macquarie Island and Kilcunda, Victoria ( Simon et al. 2010).

Recorded distribution: Australia: Macquarie Island, Kilcunda, Victoria; New Zealand; Chile; Argentina (?); Brazil (?)