Species Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) muelleri Diesing, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aspidosiphon muelleri Diesing, K.M. 1851. Systema helminthum. Vindobonae : Braumüller Vol. II 588 pp. [68].
• Aspidosiphon clavatus Diesing, K.M. 1851. Systema helminthum. Vindobonae : Braumüller Vol. II 588 pp. [68].
• Sipunculus cochlearius Valenciennes, A. 1854. Remarques sur le mémoire de M. Eugene Robert. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 39: 640-643 [640].
• Lesinia farcimen Schmidt, O. 1854. Über Sipunculoiden (Gephyrea Quatrfgs.). Zeitschrift fur die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften (Leipzig and Stuttgart) 3(1): 1-7 [2].
• Aspidosiphon eremita Diesing, K.M. 1859. Revision der Rhyngodeen. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 37: 719-782 [768].
• Phascolosoma radiata Alder, J. 1860. Description of a zoophyte and two species of Echinodermata new to Britain. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5: 73-75 [75].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Britain.
• Sipunculus heterocyathi McDonald, J.D. 1862. Observations on some Australian and Feegeean Heterocyathus and their parasitical Sipunculus. Natural History Review 1862: 78-81 [78].
• Aspidosiphon jukesii Baird, W.B. 1873. Descriptions of some new species of Annelida and Gephyrea in the collections of the British Museum. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 11: 94-97 [97].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH 1965.25.3, Lee Sandbanks, Great Barrier Reef, QLD.
• Aspidosiphon mirabilis Théel, H. 1875. Études sur les géphyriens inermes des mers de la Scandinavie, du Spitzberg et du Groënland. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 3(6): 1-30 [17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Scandinavia.
• Aspidosiphon armatum Danielssen, D.C. & Koren, J. 1880. New northern Gephyrea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 6: 462-465 [464].
• Aspidosiphon tortus Selenka, E. & Bülow, C. 1883. Die Sipunculiden. In, Selenka, E., Man, J.G. de & Bülow, C. (eds). Reisen in Archipel Philippinen van Dr. C. Semper. Leipsig : Leipsig und Wiesbaden Vol. 1 133 pp. [119].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Philippines.
• Aspidosiphon heteropsammium Bouvier, E.L. 1894. Un nouveau cas de commensalime: Association de vers du genre Aspidosiphon avec des polypes madréporaires et un mollusque bivalve. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 119: 96-98 [98].
• Aspidosiphon michelini Bouvier, E.L. 1894. Un nouveau cas de commensalime: Association de vers du genre Aspidosiphon avec des polypes madréporaires et un mollusque bivalve. Comptes Rendus (Hebdomadaires) des Séances de l'Academie des Sciences. Série D. Sciences Naturelles 119: 96-98 [98].
• Aspidosiphon corallicola 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 [19].
• Aspidosiphon inquilinus 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 [29].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMA (8° 25.2'S, 127° 18'E, 27-54 m depth), Siboga Stn. 282.
• Aspidosiphon exhaustum 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 [29].
• Aspidosiphon pygmaeus Fischer, W. 1921. Aspidosiphon pygmaeus n.sp., eine neue Gephyree aus Juan Fernandez. Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island 3: 45-47 [45].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Juan Fernandez.
• Aspidosiphon kovaleskii Murina, V.V. 1964. On the sipunculid fauna of the Mediterranean Sea. Trudy Sevastopol'skoi Biologicheskoi Stantsii 17: 51-76 [51].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Mediterranean Sea.
• Aspidosiphon hispitrofus LiGreci, F. 1980. Sul rinvenimento di un sipunculidae del genere Aspidosiphon, Diesing 1851, sui fondali batiali della Sicilia occidentale. Rivista di Parasitologia 41(1): 123-134 [123].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Sicily.
• Aspidosiphon imbellis 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 [29].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Common in the north-eastern Atlantic, Indian Oceans, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean and Red Seas; not found in most of the Pacific Ocean.

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 Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic
• Papua New Guinea

Neotropical Region

• Brazil
• Chile

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Palaearctic Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Mainly found 5-400 m depth, but several records down to 2900 m; most often found in dead gastropod or scaphopod shells.

 

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [218-220]

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [46-49] (as Aspidosiphon exhaustus (p. 46), Aspidosiphon jukesii (p. 49) and Aspidosiphon inquilinus (pp. 47-48))

 

History of changes

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