Species Bathypora nitens (Hincks, 1880)

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Species Bathypora nitens (Hincks, 1880)

Compiler and date details

July 2001 - Dr Philip Bock

Membranipora nitens Hincks, T. 1880. Contributions towards a general history of the marine Polyzoa. II. Foreign Membraniporina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 6: 81-92, 376-381 [85].
Membranipora porcellana Macgillivray, P.H. 1885. Descriptions of new or little-known Polyzoa. Part 8. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 21: 106-119 [110].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV F45514 2 slides, Portland.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Lower W coast

Ecological Descriptors

Colonial, continental shelf, epiphytic, filter-feeder, sessile, subtidal.

History of changes

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

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Mar-2014	BRYOZOA Ehrenberg, 1831	25-Mar-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson (NMV) Elizabeth Greaves (NMV)
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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