Species Crisia elongata Milne Edwards, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Crisia elongata Milne Edwards, H. 1838. Mémoire sur les Crisies, les Hornéres et plusieurs autres Polypes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 2 9: 193-238 [203].
• Crisia margaritacea Busk, G. 1875. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the collection of the British Museum. Part 3. London : Trustees of the British Museum pp. 1-39. [6].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, Australia.
• Crisia punctifera Haswell, W.A. 1880. On the cyclostomatous Polyzoa of Port Jackson. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 350-356 [355].
• Crisia terrareginae Haswell, W.A. 1881. On some Polyzoa from the Queensland coast. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5: 33-44 [35].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, close to Holborn Is., Qld.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Harmer, S.F. 1915. The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition. Part 1. Entoprocta, Ctenostomata and Cyclostomata. Siboga-Expéditie Report 28A: 1-180 [96] (Synonymy of Harmer needs to be verified)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast

Palaearctic Region

• Egypt

Ecological Descriptors

Colonial, continental shelf, filter-feeder, sessile.

 

Notes

Widely distributed in Indo-Pacific

 

History of changes

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