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Species Epimenia australis (Thiele, 1897)

Proneomenia australis Thiele, J. 1897. Zwei australische Solenogastres. Zoologischer Anzeiger 20: 398-400 [399].
Type data:
Holotype ZMB Moll105.407a, Moll105.407b (serial sections) (7 May 1875, Gazelle Expedition), Australia NW oceanic 108 m.
Type locality references:
Glaubrecht, M., Maitas, L. & Salvini-Plawen, L. v. 2005. Aplacophoran Mollusca in the Natural History Museum Berlin. An annotated catalogue of Thiele's type specimens, with a brief review of “Aplacophora” classification. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin Zoologische Reihe 81(2): 145-166 [155, fig. 1B].
Dinomenia verrucosa Nierstrasz, H.F. 1902. The Solenogastres of the Siboga-Expedition. Siboga-Exped. 47. Leyden : E.J. Brill 46 pp. [14].
Type data:
Lectotype ZMA 27 (serial sections), East Indian Archipelago.
Subsequent designation references:
Salvini-Plawen, L.v. 1997. Systematic revision of the Epimeniidae (Mollusca: Solenogastres). Journal of Molluscan Studies 63: 131-155 [133].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Scheltema, A.H. & Jebb, M. 1994. Natural history of a solenogaster mollusc from Papua New Guinea, Epimenia australis (Thiele), (Aplacophora: Neomeniomorpha). Journal of Natural History 28: 1297-1318 [1314]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, tropical.

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)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Western Australia: NW oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, predator, rock reef.

Extra Ecological Information

Alcyonarian predator.

General References

Baba, K. 1940. The early development of a solenogastre, Epimenia verrucosa (Nierstr.). Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 19: 107-113 (development)

Baba, K. 1940. The mechanisms of absorption and excretion in a solenogastre, Epimenia verrucosa (Nierstrasz), studied by means of injection methods. Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Kyushu Imperial University 6: 119-166 (physiology)

Glaubrecht, M., Maitas, L. & Salvini-Plawen, L. v. 2005. Aplacophoran Mollusca in the Natural History Museum Berlin. An annotated catalogue of Thiele's type specimens, with a brief review of “Aplacophora” classification. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin Zoologische Reihe 81(2): 145-166

Salvini-Plawen, L.v. 1997. Systematic revision of the Epimeniidae (Mollusca: Solenogastres). Journal of Molluscan Studies 63: 131-155 [133-136, Figs 1-3, 7A]

Salvini-Plawen, L.v. & Benayahu, Y. 1991. Epimenia arabica spec. nov., a Solenogaster (Mollusca) feeding on the alcyonacean Scleronephthya corymbosa (Cnidaria) from shallow waters of the Red Sea. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli I: Marine Ecology 12: 139-152 (feeding)

Scheltema, A.H. & Jebb, M. 1994. Natural history of a solenogaster mollusc from Papua New Guinea, Epimenia australis (Thiele), (Aplacophora: Neomeniomorpha). Journal of Natural History 28: 1297-1318 (behaviour)

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)
07-Jun-2016	APLACOPHORA	30-Jun-2015	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri
		12-Feb-2010	(import)