Species Exogone heterosetosa McIntosh, 1885

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Species Exogone heterosetosa McIntosh, 1885

Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Exogone heteroseta 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 [205].
Type data:
Status unknown, off Marion Island
Comment: The 'Challenger' collection was in the Gatty Laboratory, St Andrews but was later moved to the British Museum of Natural History and some specimens were lost.
Exogone heterochaeta Ehlers, E. 1897. Polychetaen. Hamburg : Hamburger Magalhaenischen Sammelreise 148 pp. [51] [incorrect subsequent spelling for Exogone heteroseta].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, 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

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Down to about 600m depth.

Citations

Exogone heterochaeta.
—Ehlers, E. 1897. Polychetaen. Hamburg : Hamburger Magalhaenischen Sammelreise 1–148 pp. [51, pl. 3].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [247-249].

Exogone heterosetosa.
—Haswell, W.A. 1920. The Exogoneae. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 34: 217–245 [221–222, pl. 17].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [32].

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
17-Oct-2023	15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	07-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	06-Apr-2010	ADDED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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