Subspecies Golfingia (Golfingia) vulgaris herdmani (Shipley, 1903)

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Subspecies Golfingia (Golfingia) vulgaris herdmani (Shipley, 1903)

Centrosiphon herdmani Shipley, A.E. 1903. Report on the Gephyrea collected by Prof. Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. Herdman Reports on the Pearl Oyster Fishery 1(3): 169-176 [171].
Type data:
Holotype Ceylon (=Sri Lanka).
Golfingia vulgaris queenslandensis Edmonds, S.J. 1956. Australian Sipunculoidea II. The genera Phascolosoma, Dendrostomum, Golfingia, Aspidosiphon and Cloeosiphon. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: 281-315 [303].
Type data:
Holotype AM W3602, Heron Island, QLD.
Golfingia liochros Cutler, E.B. & Cutler, N.J. 1979. Madagascar and Indian Ocean Sipuncula. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 4 1: 941-990 [950].

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian distribution — Heron Is., QLD and Proper Bay, Port Lincoln, SA.

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

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Madagascar
Mozambique

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, S Gulfs coast

Oriental Region

Sri Lanka
Thailand

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sand bottom marine, seagrass, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Common in the roots of the seagrass Posidonia.

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [76-77]

Edmonds, S.J. 1956. Australian Sipunculoidea II. The genera Phascolosoma, Dendrostomum, Golfingia, Aspidosiphon and Cloeosiphon. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: 281-315 [303-305] (as Golgingia vulgaris queenslandensis)

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [19-22] (as Golfinga (Golfingia) herdmani (p.19-21) and Golfingia (Golfingia) vulgaris queenslandensis (p. 21-22))

Edmonds, S.J. 1982. Sipunculans (Phylum Sipuncula). pp. 299-311 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp. [308-310]

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)
21-Jul-2023		21-Jul-2023	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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