Species Cryptopora gnomon Jeffreys, 1869

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cryptophora gnomon Jeffreys, J.G. 1869. The deep-sea dredging expedition in H.M.S. "Procupine". Nature (London) 1: 135-136 [136].

  Secondary source:

   Zezina, O.N. 1981. Recent deep-sea Brachiopoda from the western Pacific. Galathea Report 15: 7-20 [9].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Great Barrier Reef, "eastern coasts", also found in the Atlantic Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, NE coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental slope.

 

General References

Richardson, J.R. 1997. Chapter 19. Brachiopods (Phylum Brachiopoda). pp. 999-1027 in Shepherd, S.A. & Davies, M. (eds). Marine invertebrates of Southern Australia. Richmond, SA : South Australian Research and Development Institute & Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbook Committee Vol. 3 pp. 902-1264. [1011] (diagnosis, distribution, ecology)

Zezina, O.N. 1981. Recent deep-sea Brachiopoda from the western Pacific. Galathea Report 15: 7-20 [9] (summary of references, distribution, ecology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)