Species Glycera benhami Böggemann & Fiege, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Glycera benhami Böggemann, M. & Fiege, D. 2001. Description of seven new species of the genus Glycera Savigny, 1818 (Annelida: Polychaeta: Glyceridae). Ophelia 54(1): 29-49 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype NZOI A441 (214-229m depth), Cook Strait, New Zealand.
  Paratype(s) SMF 9120, South Island, New Zealand.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait, Tas. coast
• New Zealand

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

27–1140m depth.

 

Misidentifications

Glycera tesselata (non Grube, 1863)
—Benham, W.B. 1916. Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, Part 2. pp. 125–162 in Dannevig, H.C. (ed.) Biological Results of the Fisheries Expedition F.I.S. Endeavour 1909–14. Sydney Vol. 4. [143]

 

General References

Böggemann, M. 2002. Revision of the Glyceridae Grube 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 555: 1-249 [48-49] (figs 40-42)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)