Polycirrus variabilis Hutchings & Glasby, 1986 Polycirrus variabilis Hutchings & Glasby 1986: 345 –347, figs 11, 12e. Polycirrus variabilis.— Glasby & Hutchings 2014: 108–109, fig. 61. Type material. Holotype: AM W.199538, Lizard Island lagoon, 14°40'S, 145°27'E, 1977. Other material examined. Queensland, Lizard Island, AM W.45141 (2), MI QLD 2435. Remarks. This species was recently redescribed (Glasby & Hutchings 2014) and our specimens are in agreement with that redescription, having notopodia on segments 3–18, neuropodia beginning on segment 19, and similar general morphology of the anterior end and the ventral pads. The species was originally described from Lizard Island. Habitat. In coral substrate, 7– 12 m. Type locality. 14°40’S, 145°27’E, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Distribution. Only known from the Lizard Island region.

Published as part of Nogueira, João Miguel Matos, Hutchings, Pat & Carrerette, Orlemir, 2015, Polycirridae (Annelida, Terebelliformia) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, pp. 437-483 in Zootaxa 4019 (1) on page 473, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.17, http://zenodo.org/record/245062