Species Euthalenessa microceras (Haswell, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thalenessa microceras Haswell, W.A. 1883. A monograph of the Australian Aphroditea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 250-298 [294].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM G11395 (65 segments), Port Molle, Queensland.
• Thalenessa oculata 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 [142].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F56852 (41 segments), Bass Strait, Victoria.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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, NE coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, mud bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

From 27–70 m depth.

 

Citations

Thalenessa microceras.
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [185].

Misidentifications

as Euthalenessa festiva.
—Pettibone, M.H. 1970. Revision of the Genus Euthalenessa Darboux (Polychaeta: Sigalionidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 52: 1–30 [12–19, figs 6–11] (in part).

 

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)