Species Glycera oxycephala Ehlers, 1887

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• Glycera oxycephala Ehlers, E. 1887. Reports on the results of dredging, under the direction of L.F. Pourtales, during the years 1868–1870, and of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877–78), and in the Caribbean Sea (1878–79), in the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer Blake, Lieut.-Com. C.D. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 15: 1-335 [121].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 713 (dried), unknown (?Gulf of Mexico or Caribbean Sea).
• Glycera ehlersi Arwidsson, I. 1899. Studien uber die Familien Glyceridae und Goniadidae. Bergens Museums Aarbog 11: 1-69 [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype SSMNH Type 983, North Sea.
• Glycera capitata benguellana Augener, H. 1931. Die bodensassigen Polychaeten nebst einer Hirudinee der Meteor-Fahrt. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Institut und Zoologischen Museum der Universität Hamburg 44: 279-313 [303].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (presumed lost), Benguella-Stromung westlich von Sudafrika.
• Glycera tenuis Hartman, O. 1944. Polychaetous annelids from California, including the descriptions of two new genera and nine new species. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 10: 239-310.

  Type data:

   Holotype LACM POLY 769, Dillon Beach, California, USA.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

In temperate zones and tropical seas.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, NE coast

Nearctic Region

• Canada
  • British Columbia
• Mexico
• United States of America
  • Alabama
  • California
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina

Neotropical Region

• Barbados
• Bermuda
• Brazil
• Costa Rica
• Haiti

Oriental Region

• India
• Thailand

Palaearctic Region

• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Kuwait
• United Kingdom

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 2951m.

 

General References

Böggemann, M. 2002. Revision of the Glyceridae Grube 1850 (Annelida: Polychaeta). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 555: 1-249 [40-41] (figs 22-24)

 

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)