Species Amphitritides ithya Hutchings & Glasby, 1988

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Species Amphitritides ithya Hutchings & Glasby, 1988

Amphitritides ithya Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1988. The Amphitritinae (Polychaeta: Terebellidae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 40: 1-60 [8-10].
Type data:
Holotype AM W200338 1 specimen (posteriorly incomplete, 61 segments), Port Denison, Qld [20°03'S, 148°15'E].
Paratype(s) AM W200339 1 specimen (complete, 77 segments), west of Topsy Creek, Gulf of Carpentaria, Qld [15°28.5'S, 140°53.2'E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also SW coast.

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

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), 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: Gulf of Carp., Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In crevices, under rocks and associated with encrusting algae.

Citations

Amphitritides ithya.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1990. Additional new species of the family Terebellidae (Polychaeta) from Western Australia, with a key to all described species of the region. pp. 251–289 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. Western Australia Museum, Perth. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1 [265–266].

Misidentifications

as Terebella pterochaeta.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 75–218 pp. [148].

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
17-Oct-2023	03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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