Species Ferosagitta ferox (Doncaster, 1902)

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• Sagitta ferox Doncaster, L. 1902. Chaetognatha, with a note on the variation and distribution of the group. Fauna and Geography of the Maldives and Laccadive Archipelagoes 1: 209-218.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Maldives.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific, between 30°N and 30°S.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Epipelagic.

 

Body length

16-18 mm

 

General References

Ritter-Záhony, R. von 1910. Chaetognatha. pp. 123-126 in Michaelsen, W. (ed.). Die Fauna Südwest Australiens. unknown : Johann Wilhelm Vol. 3. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta ferox)

Thomson, J.M. 1947. The Chaetognatha of South-Eastern Australia. Bulletin of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Australia 222: 1-43 [15] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta ferox)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)