Species Hololepidella commensalis Willey, 1905

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Species Hololepidella commensalis Willey, 1905

Hololepidella commensalis 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. [251].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown (incomplete, 46 segments), Sri Lanka.
Type host:
Clypeaster humilis (Leske, 1778) [CLYPEASTERIDAE]

Distribution

States

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: NW coast

Oriental Region

Sri Lanka

Ecological Descriptors

Commensal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Commensal on echinoids (Clypeaster humilis & Peronella lesueuri ); also reported from ophiuroids.

Citations

Hololepidella commensalis.
—Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1–628 [81].
—Pettibone, M.H. 1969. The genera Polyeunoa McIntosh, Hololepidella Willey, and three new genera (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 82: 43–62 [49–50].

Remarks

According to Pettibone (1969), this Australian record of Augener's is doubtful.

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)

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