Species Aphrodita talpa Quatrefages, 1865

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aphrodite talpa Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [196-197].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (not located by Hutchings & McRae, 1993), New Zealand.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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: Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Trawled from 20–161 m depth.

 

Citations

Aphrodita talpa.
—Fauvel, P. 1925. Sur quelques espèces du genre Aphrodita (A. aculeata L., A. australis Baird, A. talpa Quatrefages, et A. armifera Moore). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 50: 131–150 [140–144, fig. 4].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1936. Polychaete worms II. Discovery Reports 12: 59–198 [82–83, fig. 3].
—Hutchings, P. & McRae, J. 1993. The Aphroditidae (Polychaeta) from Australia, together with a redescription of the Aphroditidae collected during the Siboga Expedition. Records of the Australian Museum 45: 279–363 [307–311, figs 23–24]

 

History of changes

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