Species Flaccisagitta enflata (Grassi, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sagitta enflata Grassi, G.B. 1881. I Chetognati. Fauna Flora Golfo Neapel Monografie V. Leipzig : W. Engelman 126 pp.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Bay of Naples, Italy.
• Sagitta australis Johnston, T.H. 1909. An Australian chaetognath. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 251-256.

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Maroubra Bay, NSW.
• Sagitta gardineri Lele, S.H. & Gae, P.B. 1936. Common Sagittae of Bombay Harbour. Journal of the University of Bombay 4(5): 105-113.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Bombay Harbour, India.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal, between 40°N and 40°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), 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: Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Epipelagic.

 

Body length

6-30 mm

 

General References

Johnston, T.H. & Taylor, B.B. 1919. Notes on Australian Chaetognath. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 31: 28-41 [30] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta australis)

Johnston, T.H. & Taylor, B.B. 1919. Notes on Australian Chaetognath. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 31: 28-41 [31]

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 enflata)

Thomson, J.M. 1947. The Chaetognatha of South-Eastern Australia. Bulletin of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Australia 222: 1-43 [11] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta enflata)

Tokioka, T. 1940. A small collection of chaetognaths from the coast of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 367-379 [369] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta enflata)

 

History of changes

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