Species Leodice metatropos (Hanley, 1986)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eunice metatropos Hanley, J.R. 1986. Co-operative effort in a new species of tube dwelling worm, Eunice metatropos (Polychaeta: Eunicidae). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 3: 215-221 [215-221].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM W3886 (87 segments), North-West Shelf, WA, 80 [19°12'S, 118°32'E].
  Paratype(s) NTM W3887-3889, W3953; AM W201437-8; USNM 101342-3; BMNH ZB 1986-250, ZB 1986-251 (All paratypes form same locality as the holotype).

 

Generic Combinations

• Leodice metatropos (Hanley, 1986). —
  Zanol, J., Hutchings, P.A. & Fauchald, K. 2020. Eunice sensu latu (Annelida: Eunicidae) from Australia: description of seven new species and comments on previously reported species of the genera Eunice, Leodice and Nicidion. Zootaxa 4748(1): 1-43 [28]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

North-West Shelf, WA.

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf.

Extra Ecological Information

80 m depth.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	EUNICIDAE	04-Jul-2020	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		07-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		10-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)