Species Aspidosiphon (Paraspidosiphon) steenstrupii (Diesing, 1859)

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• Aspidosiphon steenstrupii Diesing, K.M. 1859. Revision der Rhyngodeen. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 37: 719-782 [767].
• Aspidosiphon fuscus Sluiter, C.P. 1881. Beiträge zur der Kenntniss der Gephyreenaus dem Malayischen Archipelago. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 41: 84-110 [86].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Malaysian Archipelago.
• Aspidosiphon speculator Selenka, E. 1885. Report on the Gephyrea collected by H.M.S. Challenger during 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 13(36): 1-25 [19].
• Aspidosiphon semperi Ten Broeke, A. 1925. Westindische Sipunculiden und Echiuriden. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 24: 81-96 [92].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, West indies.
• Aspidosiphon makoensis Sato, H. 1939. Studies on the Echiuroidea, Sipunculoidea and Priapuloidea of Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University 4 14: 339-460 [419].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Japan.
• Aspidosiphon tridensis Cordero, E.H. & Mello-Leitão, A. 1952. Duas novas éspecies do gênero Aspidosiphon da Ihla Trinidade. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro 50: 277-295 [283].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Trinidad.
• Aspidosiphon exostomum Johnson, P. 1964. Two species of Aspidosiphon (Sipunculoidea). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13(7): 331-335 [331].
• Aspidosiphon ochrus Cutler, E.B. & Cutler, N.J. 1979. Madagascar and Indian Ocean Sipuncula. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 1: 941-990 [976].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Common throughout the western and northern Indian Ocean, western Pacific Ocean; also recorded from the Caribbean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mauritius

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef

Neotropical Region

• Brazil
• Cuba

Oriental Region

• Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, rock reef, subtidal.

 

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [225-226]

Edmonds, S.J. 1956. Australian Sipunculoidea II. The genera Phascolosoma, Dendrostomum, Golfingia, Aspidosiphon and Cloeosiphon. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: 281-315 [307-308] (as Aspidosiphon steenstrupii)

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [51]

 

History of changes

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