Species Ficopomatus uschakovi (Pillai, 1960)

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Species Ficopomatus uschakovi (Pillai, 1960)

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

Neopomatus uschakovi Pillai, T.G. 1960. Some marine and brackish-water serpulid polychaetes from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science 3: 1-40 [28-32].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1959:4:14:7, Panadura River, Sri Lanka.
Neopomatus uschakovi lingayanensis Pillai, T.G. 1965. Annelida Polychaeta from the Philippines and Indonesia. Ceylon Journal of Science Biological Sciences 5(2): 110-177 [170-172] [as Neopomatus uschakovi var. lingayanensis].
Type data:
Status unknown, Lingayan Gulf, Luzon, Philippines.
Neopomatus similis Pillai, T.G. 1960. Some marine and brackish-water serpulid polychaetes from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science 3: 1-40 [32-33].
Type data:
Status unknown, Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka.
Neopomatus similis rugosus Pillai, T.G. 1960. Some marine and brackish-water serpulid polychaetes from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science 3: 1-40 [33-35] [as Neopomatus similis var. rugosus].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1959:4:14:14, Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

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

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)
Nigeria

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower E coast
Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

India
Indonesia
- Java
Philippines
- Luzon
Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

Netherlands

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary.

Extra Ecological Information

Attached to shells, stones, and decomposing leaves.

Citations

Neopomatus uschakovi.
—Pillai, T.G. 1965. Annelida Polychaeta from the Philippines and Indonesia. Ceylon Journal of Science, Biological Sciences 5(2): 110–177 [172].
—Pillai, T.G. 1971. Studies on a collection of marine and brackish-water polychaete annelids of the family Serpulidae from Ceylon. Ceylon Journal of Science, Biological Sciences 9: 88–130 [118–123, 127, figs 9–10].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1971. Annelida, Borstenwürmer, Polychaeta. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise 58: 1–594 [9, figs 2, 3, 5, 7, 11–14].

Ficopomatus uschakovi.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1989. Teil 14. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen und subtropisch-tropischen Küste Südost-Australiens zwischen Lakes Entrance (Victoria) im Süden und Maclean (New South Wales) im Norden. In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 11–63 pp. [54].

Misidentifications

as Merceriella enigmatica.
Hutchings, P.A. & Johnson, R.T., this work (note that many specimens identified as Mercierella enigmatica from tropical regions belong (at least partly) to Ficopomatus uschakovi).

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	03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	09-Aug-2010	MOVED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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