Species Argyrotheca australis (Blochmann, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cistella australis Blochmann, F. 1910. New Brachiopods from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 90-99 [author given in index as Verco, J.C., who wrote the introduction on pages 89-90] [93, pl. 27, figs. 10-12].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
  Paratype(s) Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, filter-feeder, marine.

 

General References

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1943. A systematic list of the Echinodermata, Foraminifera, Hydroida, Brachiopoda of southern Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 1-36 [32] (record from SA)

Richardson, J.R. 1997. Chapter 19. Brachiopods (Phylum Brachiopoda). pp. 999-1027 in Shepherd, S.A. & Davies, M. (eds). Marine invertebrates of Southern Australia. Richmond, SA : South Australian Research and Development Institute & Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbook Committee Vol. 3 pp. 902-1264. [1017] (fig. 19.10c, d; description, distribution, ecology)

 

History of changes

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