Species Apionsoma (Apionosoma) trichocephalus (Sluiter, 1902)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Apionosoma trichocephalus Sluiter, C.P. 1902. Die Sipunculiden und Echiuriden der Siboga-Expedition, nebst Zusammenstellung der Ueberdies aus den indischen Archipel bekannten Arten. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 25: 1-53 [42].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMA, Surabaya, Java, Indonesia.
• Phascolosoma pusillum Sluiter, C.P. 1912. Géphyriens (Sipunculides et Echiurides) provenant des campagnes de la Princesse Alice, 1898-1910. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques accomplies par le Prince Albert I. Monaco 36: 1-36 [14].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from SE USA, Gulf of Mexico, West and South Africa, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden.

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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower W coast
• New Zealand

Neotropical Region

• Costa Rica

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
• Vietnam

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand-dwelling species found from 0-100 m depth.

 

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [196-197]

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [23-24] (as Golfingia (Mitosiphon) trchocephala)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Jul-2023		21-Jul-2023	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)