Genus Beania Johnston, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Beania Johnston, G. 1840. Miscellanea Zoologica. Description of a new genus of British Zoophyte. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 5: 272-274.

  Type species:

   Beania mirabilis Johnston, 1840 by monotypy.
• Diachoris Busk, G. 1852. An account of the Polyzoa and Sertularian Zoophytes, collected in the voyage of the "Rattlesnake" on the coast of Australia and the Louisade Archipelago, etc. Appendix no. IV. pp. 343-402 in MacGillivray, J. (ed.). Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 1. [381].

  Type species:

   Diachoris crotali Busk, 1852 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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

Afrotropical Region

• Ghana
• Mauritius

Antarctic Region

• Antarctica

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
• New Zealand
• Vanuatu

Nearctic Region

• United States of America

Neotropical Region

• Argentina
• Brazil

Oriental Region

• China (People's Republic)
• Indonesia
• Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

• Japan
• Madeira Islands
• United Kingdom

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