Genus Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887

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• Cossura Webster, H.E. & Benedict, J.E. 1887. The Annelida Chaetopoda, from Eastport, Maine. pp. 707–755 in, Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries 1885. [743].

  Type species:

   Cossura longocirrata Webster & Benedict, 1887 by original designation.

 

Introduction

From eastern Australian waters, Zhadan (2015) described species as Cossura sp. cf. ginesi (Cairns, Gladstone & Halifax Bay, Qld, and Wallis Lake, NSW) and Cossura sp. cf. longocirrata (Hawksbury region of central NSW coast), Cossura sp. cf. pygodactylata (Botany Bay and and Clyde River eastuary, NSW) and Cossura sp. A (east of Gigue, NSW)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Citations

Cossura.
—Fournier, J.A. & Petersen, M.E. 1991. Cossura longocirrata: Redescription and distribution, with notes on reproductive biology and a comparison of described species of Cossura (Polychaeta: Cossuridae). 63–80 in Petersen, M.E. & Kirkegaard, J.B. Systematics, Biology and Morphology of World Polychaeta. Proceedings of the Second International Polychaete Conference, Copenhagen, August 18–23, 1986. Ophelia Supplement 5: 723 [65].

 

General References

Zhadan, A. 2015. Cossuridae (Annelida: Polychaeta: Sedentaria) from Australian and adjacent waters: the first faunistic survey. Records of the Australian Museum 67(1): 1–24 [9]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		09-Apr-2015	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)