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Species Diopatra amboinensis Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

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Species Diopatra amboinensis Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833

 

Distribution

States

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

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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: Central E coast, Gulf of Carp., N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 25 m depth.

 

Citations

Diopatra amboinensis.
—[Milne Edwards, 1838]: 564.
—Malmgren, A.J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 22: 355–410 [179].
—Collin, A. 1903. Verzeichniss der von Prof. R. Semon bei Amboina und Thursday Island gesammelten Polychäten. Zoologische Forschungs-reisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipel. Vol. 5 Systematik, Tiergeographie, Anatomie wirbelloser Tiere. 739–742 pp. [742].
—Fauvel, P. 1930. Annelida Polychaeta of the Madras Government Museum. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History section. 1(2): 1–72 [29].
—Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1–628 [298].
—Paxton, H. 1986. Generic revision and relationships of the family Onuphidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). Records of the Australian Museum 38: 1–74 [41].

Misidentifications

as Diopatra dentata.
—Augener, H. 1922. Revision der Australischen Polychaeten-typen von Kinberg. Arkiv för Zoologi 14: 1–42 [37].

as Diopatra cuprea cuprea.
—(in part) Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 75–218 pp. [125–126, figs 258–261].

as Diopatra sp.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1980. Teil 4. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Port Samson im Norden und Exmouth im Süden). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 41–110 pp. [63] (in part).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 23-Jul-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 03-Nov-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)