Genus Crucigera Benedict, 1887

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Genus Crucigera Benedict, 1887

Compiler and date details

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

Crucigera Benedict, J.E. 1887. Descriptions of ten species and one new genus of annelids from the dredgings of the U.S. Fish Comm. Steamer "Albatross". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 9: 547-553 [550].
Type species:
Crucigeri websteri Benedict, 1887 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

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 Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, NE coast
Solomon Islands

Palaearctic Region

Japan
Oman

Citations

Crucigera.
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [212–213].
—ten Hove, H.A. & Jansen-Jacobs, M.J. 1984. A revision of the genus Crucigera (Polychaeta; Serpulidae); a proposed methodical approach to serpulids, with special reference to variation in Serpula and Hydroides. pp. 143–180 in Hutchings, P.A. (ed). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1983. Sydney : The Linnean Society of New South Wales 483 pp. [152–155].

General References

Kupriyanova, E.K., Bastida-Zavala, R., Halt, M.N,., Lee, M.S.Y. & Rouse, G.W. 2008. Phylogeny of the Serpula-Crucigera-Hydroides clade (Serpulidae: Annelidae) using molecular and morphological data: implications for operculum evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 425-437

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	03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	09-Aug-2010	MOVED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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