Species Lepidonotus glaucus (Peters, 1854)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepidonotus stellatus Baird, W. 1865. Contributions towards a monograph of the species of Annelids belonging to the Aphroditacea, containing a list of the known species and a description of some new species contained in the British Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 8: 172-202 [185].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Red Sea.
• Polynoe glauca Peters, W.C.H. 1854. Naturwissenschaftliche Reise Nach Mosambique in 1842 bis 1848 ansgeführt. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1854: 610-614 [610].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mozambique.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in tropical Indo-West Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mozambique

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast
  • Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Often found in close association with eunicid worms.

 

Citations

Lepidonotus glaucus.
—Day, J.H. 1975. On a collection of Polychaeta from intertidal and shallow reefs near Perth, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 167–208 [180–181].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1974. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der afrikanischen Westkuste zwischen Angola und Kap der Guten Hoffnug und der afrikanischen Ostkuste von Sudafrika und Mocambique unter besinderer Berucksichtigung der Polychaeten un Ostracoden. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 2 69: 95–228 [99].
—Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1990. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) of Albany, Western Australia. pp. 203–236 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1 [221–223, fig. 8].
—Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1991. Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Island and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. 9–82 in Crosnier, A. Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle A 8: 466 [68–69, fig. 21]
—Hanley, J.R. 1993. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. pp. 305–320 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1, 2 634 pp. [314].

Lepidonotus stellatus.
—Haswell, W.A. 1883. A monograph of the Australian Aphroditea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 250–298 [283].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [98–101].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [175–176, pl. 4, figs 15–17].
—Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A: 1–37 [6].

 

History of changes

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