Species Leodamas johnstonei (Day, 1934)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scoloplos johnstonei Day, J.H. 1934. On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 39(263): 15-82 [58].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1934.1.19.291-292 2 specimens, False Bay, South Africa.
• Scoloplos (Leodamas) uniramus Day, J.H. 1961. The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44: 463-560 [477].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, South Africa.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast
• Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, seagrass, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In sandy subtidal seagrass beds (6–10 m depth) in estuaries.

 

Citations

Scoloplos (Leodamas) johnstonei.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [53–54].

Scoloplos (Leodamas) uniramus.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [552, fig. 23.6].

 

General References

Day, J.H. 1977. A Review of the Australian and New Zealand Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). pp. 217-246 in Reish, D.J. & Fauchald, K. (eds). Essays on Polychaetous Annelids in Memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. Los Angeles : Allan Hancock Press 604 pp. [231-232] (as Scoloplos (Leodamas) johnstonei)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	POLYCHAETA Claparède, 1864	23-Aug-2021	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		07-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)