Species Amphictene favona Hutchings & Peart, 2002

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amphictene favona Hutchings, P. & Peart, R. 2002. A Review of the Genera of Pectinariidae (Polychaeta) Together with a Description of the Australian Fauna. Records of the Australian Museum 54: 99-127 [102-105].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W25611, Abrohlos Island, Wallabi Group, WA.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 2001.70-71, Abrohlos Island, Wallabi Group, WA; LACM POLY 2060, Abrohlos Island, Wallabi Group, WA; USNM 187084, Abrohlos Island, Wallabi Group, WA; AM W25403, Abrohlos Island, Wallabi Group, WA.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sublittoral (host(s): Astropecten granulatus Müller & Troschel, 1842 [ASTROPECTINIDAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Down to 64m depth.

 

Misidentifications

Amphictene crassa
—Hartman, O. 1966. New records of some little known Australian polychaetous annelids. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 361–365 [363–364]
—not Grube, A.-E. 1870. Beschreibungen neuer order weniger bekannter von Hrn. Ehrenberg gesammelter Anneliden des rothen Meeres. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1870: 484–521

Synonymy

Amphictene favona Hutchings, P. & Peart, R. 2002. A Review of the Genera of Pectinariidae (Polychaeta) Together with a Description of the Australian Fauna. Records of the Australian Museum 54: 99–127 [102–105, figs 2A–B, 3A–C, 4A–B, 5A–B, 6]

 

General References

Zhang, J. & Hutchings, P. 2019. A revision of Australian Pectinariidae (Polychaeta), with new species and new records. Zootaxa 4611(1): 1-70 [7, Figs 4–5, Table 1]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023	ANNELIDA	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	POLYCHAETA Claparède, 1864	07-Aug-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	PECTINARIIDAE	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	TEREBELLIDA	17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
		17-Oct-2023	MODIFIED