Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Gastrolepidia clavigera Schmarda, 1861

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Species Gastrolepidia clavigera Schmarda, 1861

Club-spined Scale Worm

Distribution

States

Queensland, 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

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast, NW coast

Oriental Region

  • Philippines
  • Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Commensal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

All Australian specimens commensal on the holothurian Stichopus mollis.

 

Citations

Gastrolepidia clavigera.
—Baird, W. 1865. Contributions towards a monograph of the species of Annelids belonging to the Aphroditacea, containing a list of the known species and a description of some new species contained in the British Museum. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 8: 172–202 [173].
—Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret [287–288].
—Grube, A.-E. 1876. Bemerkungen über die Familie Aproditeen. Gruppe Polynoina, Acoëta, Polylepidea. Schlesische gesellschaft für vaterlandische kultur Breslau Jahresbericht 53: 46–72 [69].
—Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. Suppl. 4. 243–324 pp. [253].
—Potts, F.A. 1910. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean. Pt. 2. The Palmyridae, Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Acoetidae and Sigalionidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2 16: 325–353 [341].
—Horst, R. 1915. On new and little-known species of Polynoinae from the Netherlands' East Indies. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 1: 2–30 [11–12].
—Horst, R. 1917. Polychaeta Errantia of the Siboga Expedition. Part II Aphroditidae and Chrysopetalidae. Siboga-Expeditie, Leiden 24b: 1–143 [84].
—Fauvel, P. 1919. Annélides polychètes de Madagascar, de Djibouti et du Golfe Persique. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 58: 315–473, pls 15–17 [335].
—Seidler, H.J. 1924. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Polynoiden IV. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 89A(11): 1–217 [142].
—Augener, H. 1926. Ceylon-Polychaeten. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 62: 435–472 [443].
—Augener, H. 1927. Die Polychaeten der Sammlung Thilenius von Neuseeland und Samoa. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 13: 338–363 [361].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1931. Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 1–37 [7].
—Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 12: 1–262 [25].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [51].
—Hartman, O. 1954. Marine annelids from the northern Marshall islands. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 260: 615–644 [630].
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [51].
—Reish, D.J. 1968. Polychaetous annelids of the Marshall Islands. Pacific Science 22(2): 208–231 [210].
—Gibbs, P.E. 1969. Aspects of polychaete ecology with particular reference to commensalism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 255: 443–458 [447–449].
—Gibbs, P.E. 1971. The Polychaete fauna of the Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 21(5): 101–211 [119].
—Hanley, J.R. 1989. Revision of the scaleworm genera Arctonoe Chamberlin and Gastrolepidia Schmarda (Polychaeta, Polynoidae) with the erection of a new subfamily Arctonoinae. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 6: 1–34 [17–23, figs 8–10].
—Hanley, J.R. 1993. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. pp. 305–320 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1, 2 634 pp. [305–306]

 

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)
17-Oct-2023 29-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)