Leodice bassensis ( McIntosh 1885 ), 2020

Zanol, Joana, Hutchings, Pat A. & Fauchald, Kristian, 2020, Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion, Zootaxa 4748 (1), pp. 1-43 : 26

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scientific name	Leodice bassensis ( McIntosh 1885 )
status	n. comb.

Treatment

Leodice bassensis ( McIntosh 1885) n. comb.

Eunice bassensis McIntosh, 1885: 298 .— Benham 1915: 219.— Fauchald 1986: 245; 1992: 77.

Eunice antennata .— Hartman 1959: 309 (in part, not Leodice antennata Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 ).

Material examined. South Australia. N of Cape of Borda, Kangaroo Island, 72 m depth, coll. FIS Endeavour , id. W.B. Benham, AM E.4584 (1). Tasmania. East coast of Flinders Island, Bass Strait , 40°01’S, 148°02’E, FIS GoogleMaps Endeavour , AM E.684 (4). Breaksea Island, Port Davey , 43°20’S, 145°57’E, coll. FIS GoogleMaps Endeavour , AM E.5348 (l). Central Bass Strait, 23 km E of Cape Rochon, Three Hummock Island , 40°22.2’S, 145°17’ E, 40 m, coll. M. Gomon & Poore, 3 Nov 1980, MV F94326 View Materials (l) GoogleMaps , MV F94327 View Materials GoogleMaps (3).

Remarks. Leodice bassensis was described on a posterior fragment and has remained poorly known. The specimens observed agree with the type specimen in the structure of the notopodial cirri and branchiae near the posterior end and in the structure of both compound chaetae and subacicular hooks. Benham (1915: 219) redescribed the species based in part on material still present in the Australian Museum collections. However, one of Benham’s specimens is an anterior end of L. australis .

This species has been considered a synonym of L. antennata (Savigny in Lamarck 1818; cf. Hartman 1959: 309), see remarks in the L. antennata section. Among other species known from Australia, L. bassensis also resembles L. torresiensis , see Remarks in the L. antennata section.

The species may be more widely dispersed; this cannot be assessed without examination of specimens from the different localities. Since at least three species belonging to the same species group are known from Australia, published records may contain any of these three, and perhaps even additional taxa.

Type locality. Bass Strait , South Australia .

References

Benham, W. B. (1915) Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F. I. S. ' Endeavour' on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Part 1. H. C. Dannevig, Sydney, 67 pp. [pp. 171 - 237]

Fauchald, K. (1986) Review of the types and key to the species of Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) from the Australian region. Records of the Australian Museum, 38, 241 - 262. https: // doi. org / 10.3853 / j. 0067 - 1975.38.1986.182

Fauchald, K. (1992) A review of the genus Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 523, 1 - 422. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.523

Hartman, O. (1959) Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation, 23, 1 - 628.

Lamarck, J. B. de (1818) Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres, presentant les caracteres generaux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales especes qui s'y rapportent; precedee d'une Int. Vol. 5. Deterville Libraire & Verdiere Libraire, Paris, 612 pp.

McIntosh, W. C. (1885) Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873 - 1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1872 - 76, 12, 1 - 554.