Species Flaccisagitta hexaptera (D'Orbigny, 1843)

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Species Flaccisagitta hexaptera (D'Orbigny, 1843)

Sagitta hexaptera D'Orbigny, A. 1843. Voyage dans l'Amérique meridionale, executé dans le cours des années 1826–1833, Mollusques. Paris : Strassbourg Vol. 5(3) 758 pp.
Sagitta tricuspidata Strodtmann, S. 1892. Die Systematik der Chaetognathen und die geographische Verbreitung der einzelnen Arten im nordatlantischen Ocean. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 58: 333-377.
Sagitta fowleri Benham, W.B. 1912. Report on sundry invertebrates from the Kermadec Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 44: 135-138.
Type data:
Status unknown, Kermadec Islands.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal, between 40°N and 40°S.

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

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), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), 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, NE coast, Tas. Coast
- 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Epipelagic, mesopelagic.

Body length

38-40 mm

General References

Johnston, T.H. & Taylor, B.B. 1921. The Chaetognatha. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14, Scientific Reports, Series C: Zoology & Botany 6(2): 1-17 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta hexaptera)

Thomson, J.M. 1947. The Chaetognatha of South-Eastern Australia. Bulletin of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Australia 222: 1-43 [10] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta hexaptera)

Tokioka, T. 1940. A small collection of chaetognaths from the coast of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 20: 367-379 [368] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Sagitta hexaptera)

History of changes

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

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

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