Polydora hoplura Claparède, 1870

Type locality: in barnacles, Gulf of Naples, Italy.

Type material: Unknown. None deposited?

Location and author of most recently described material: 1) New Zealand (Wellington and Marlborough Sounds) (Read 1975); 2) Australia (New South Wales; Tasmania) (Blake & Kudenov 1978); state that material agrees well with descriptions in Read (1975).

Recorded distribution: Australia: New South Wales, Tasmania. Eastern Atlantic; South Africa, Europe, New Zealand.