Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Oikopleura cophocerca Gegenbaur, 1855

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Species Oikopleura cophocerca Gegenbaur, 1855

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Warmer sections of Indian and Atlantic Oceans (including West Indies), and western and eastern Pacific Ocean, including Indonesia and Japan.


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 Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), 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), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
    • Queensland: Central E coast
    • Victoria: Bass Strait
    • Western Australia: Central W coast

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Warm water species, not taken at depths greater than 200 m in waters 13–28ºC and salinity to 34.4%.

 

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)
12-Feb-2010 (import)