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Species Arenicola cristata Stimpson, 1855

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Lower W coast

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America
    • California
    • Florida
    • Massachusetts
    • Mississippi
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • Texas

Neotropical Region

  • Bermuda
  • Cayman Islands
  • Cuba
  • Jamaica
  • Puerto Rico

Palaearctic Region

  • Italy
    • Italy (Mainland)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Arenicola cristata.
—Ashworth, J.H. 1912. Catalogue of the Chaetopoda in the British Museum. A. Polychaeta: Part 1. Arenicolidae. London : British Museum of Natural History [105, pl. 5, 8, 10, 13].
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 [42].
—Fauvel, P. 1922. Annélides polychètes de l'Archipel Houtman Abrolhos (Australie occidentale) recueilles par M. le Professeur W.G. Dakin, F.L.S. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 34: 487–500 [497].
—Wells, G.P. 1962. The warm-water lugworms of the world (Arenicolidae, Polychaeta). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 138: 331–353 [333–340].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 21-Jan-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)