page_title: List of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters)
section_title: Class Polychaeta
hierarchical_section_title: List of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) / Phylum Annelida / Class Polychaeta
caption_attribution_description: English: Sabellastarte australiensis (Southern fanworm) Fly Point
context_page_description: The list of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) is a list of marine and shore-based species that form a part of the fauna of Australia. This list includes animals which either live entirely marine lives, or which spend critical parts of their lives at sea.
  The geographical range is south of Perth, Western Australia and the border of New South Wales and Queensland, including the whole of the coasts of South Australia and Tasmania and their offshore islands. Tropical species which are also found in this range may also be listed here.
  The listed organisms are generally identifiable to the naked eye. Many microscopic animals also inhabit this region.
  Ranges are generally given relating to Australian waters. If listed as endemic, they have been found only in the listed range. Others may have much greater ranges.
context_section_description: Family Polynoidae – Scale worms
  Family Eunicidae 
  Eunice laticeps Ehlers, 1868; Iridescent biting worm; (South Australia to central New South Wales and around Tasmania.)
  Lepidonotus melanogrammus Haswell, 1883; Dark-marked scale worm; (Western Australia to New South Wales and around Tasmania.)
  Family Nereidae – Ragworms
  Perinereis sp. Western ragworm; (South Australia.)
  Family Onuphidae  
  Diopatra dentata Kinberg, 1865; Sydney parchment worm; (New South Wales.)
  Family Opheliidae 
  Armandia intermedia Fauvel, 1902; Fauvel's worm; (Western Australia to southern Queensland and around Tasmania.)
  Family Syllidae – Frilled worms
  Typosyllis sp. Zebra syllid? (Central New South Wales)
  Family Terebellidae 
  Eupolymnia koorangiaHutchings & Glasby, 1988; Orange tangle worm; (Around the Australian mainland and Tasmania.)
  Family Pectenariidae 
  Pectinaria antipoda Schmarda, 1861; Tusk worm; (Broome, Western Australia, to Heron Island, Queensland, and around Tasmania.)
  Family Sabellariidae 
  Idanthyrsus pennatus Peters, 1855; Eastern reefworm, coral worm; (Victoria to southern Queensland.)
  Family Sabellidae 
   
  ?Myxicola infundibulum (Montagu, 1808); Purple sausage worm; (Fremantle, Western Australia, to Jervis Bay, New South Wales, and northern and eastern Tasmania.)
  Sabellastarte australiensis (Haswell, 1884); Southern fanworm; (Western Australia to New South Wales and around Tasmania.)
  Sabella spallanzani (Gmelin, 1791); Giant fanworm; (Cockburn Sound, Western Australia, to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. Also Europe.)
  Family Serpulidae 
  Protula sp. Red tubeworm; (Southern Western Australia to South Australia.)
  Filograna implexa Berkeley, 1835; Tangled tubeworm;  (Western Australia to New South Wales and around Tasmania. Also widespread overseas.)
  Galeolaria caespitosa Lamarck, 1818; Sydney coral worm; (Perth, Western Australia, to Hervey Bay, Queensland, and around Tasmania.)
  Serpula sp. Orange tubeworm  (South Australia to New South Wales.)
  Family Spirorbidae
caption: Sabellastarte australiensis (Southern fanworm)
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