Species Euthalenessa digitata (McIntosh, 1885)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thalenessa digitata McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 12: 1-554 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 85:12:1:109a (160 segments, in 4 pieces), Admiralty Islands, Western Pacific.
• Thalenessa djiboutensis Gravier, C. 1901. Contribution à l'étude des Annélides polychètes de la Mer Rouge. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 4 3: 147-268 [231-238].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP A273, Djibouti, Red Sea.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea, Persian Gulf.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

• Hong Kong

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Amongst rocks and coral substrate.

 

Citations

Thalenessa digitata.
—Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. Suppl. 4. 243–324 pp. [260, pl. 2].

Euthalenessa digitata.
—Pettibone, M.H. 1970. Revision of the Genus Euthalenessa Darboux (Polychaeta: Sigalionidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 52: 1–30 [19–23, figs 12–13].

Euthalenessa djiboutensis.
—Fauvel, P. 1919. Annélides polychètes de Madagascar, de Djibouti et du Golfe Persique. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 58: 315–473, pls 15–17 [345].
—Fauvel, P. 1922. Annélides polychètes de l'Archipel Houtman Abrolhos (Australie occidentale) recueilles par M. le Professeur W.G. Dakin, F.L.S. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 34: 487–500 [492].
—Wesenberg-Lund, E. 1949. Polychaetes of the Iranian Gulf. Danish Scientific Investigations in Iran 4(4): 247–400 [258].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		07-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)