New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
Adventive occurrence in New Zealand of the scale-worm Paralepidonotus ampulliferus (Annelida:
Polychaeta: Polynoidae)
Geoffrey B. Read
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited
Private Bag 14901
Wellington, New Zealand
email: g.read@niwa.co.nz
Abstract The distinctive polynoid Paralepidonotus ampulliferus is
known to be distributed across the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean,
and is present around much of the Australian coast. It is reported here for
New Zealand for the first time, and a description is provided. The scale-worm
has been found subtidally in Whangarei Harbour, and is widespread around the
soft-shores of Waitemata Harbour (Auckland) and nearby Hauraki Gulf inlets,
with the earliest record dating from late 1998. Surveys before 2003 in Waitemata
Harbour, Whangarei Harbour, and elsewhere around New Zealand had not detected
the species. Its presence in New Zealand is evaluated as unlikely to have been
achieved without human-mediated assistance.
Keywords Paralepidonotus ampulliferus; Polynoidae; adventive;
alien; new record; New Zealand
New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 2006, Vol. 40:
643–654
0028–8330/06/4004–0643 © The Royal Society
of New Zealand 2006
M06041; Online publication date 15 November 2006. Received 11 July
2006; accepted 28 September 2006
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