Genus Aspidosiphon Diesing, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

• Apidosiphon Diesing, K.M. 1851. Systema helminthum. Vindobonae : Braumüller Vol. II 588 pp.

  Type species:

   Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) muelleri muelleri Diesing, 1851 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Mauritius
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic
• Guam
• Hawaii
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands

Neotropical Region

• Brazil
• Chile
• Cuba
• Haiti

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• Indonesia
• Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Palaearctic Region

• Azores
• Canary Islands
• Japan
• Norway
• Spain
• United Kingdom

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [200]

 

History of changes

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