Species Amphinome rostrata (Pallas, 1766)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aphrodita rostrata Pallas, P.S. 1766. Miscellanea Zoologica, quibas novae imprimis atque obscurae animalium species describunture et observationibus iconibusque illustrantur. Hague : Hague Comitum Vol. 12 pp. 1-244. [106].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.
• Amphinome pallasi Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [394].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Azores and Antilles.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Common in tropical waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast
  • Lord Howe Island

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Usually found on floating objects such as driftwood.

 

Citations

Amphinome pallasii.
—Fauvel, P. 1923. Faune de France. Vol 5 Polychètes errantes. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–488 pp. [127, fig. 46a–g].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		07-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)