Species Australospio trifida Blake & Kudenov, 1978

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Species Australospio trifida Blake & Kudenov, 1978

Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Australospio trifida Blake, J.A. & Kudenov, J.D. 1978. The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 39: 171-280 [193-195].
Type data:
Holotype NMV G2901 (incomplete, 50 chaetigers), Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW.
Paratype(s) NMV G2902 3 specimens, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W13002 6 specimens, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W13003 1 specimen, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W13004 2 specimens, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W13005 3 specimens, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW; NMV G2903 5 specimens, Towra Beach, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W13006 6 specimens, Towra Point, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W13007 3 specimens, Towra Point, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W13008 2 specimens, Towra Point, Botany Bay, NSW; AM W5006, Wallis Lake, NSW; NMV G2904, Westernport, Vic; NMV G2905, Westernport, Vic; NMV G2998 3 specimens, Port Phillip Bay, Hobson's Bay, Vic.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, mud bottom, seagrass.

Citations

Australospio trifida.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [57–58].

General References

Hutchings, P.A. 1974. Polychaeta of Wallis Lake, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 98: 175-195 [182] (as Scolelepis sp.)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
17-Oct-2023	15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	16-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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