Australian Biological Resources Study

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Species Hydroides brachyacantha Rioja, 1941

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Species Hydroides brachyacantha Rioja, 1941


Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


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

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, NE coast
  • Palau
  • Solomon Islands

Neotropical Region

  • Mexico

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks at low water mark, from both muddy and sandy habitats in 2–5 m depth, from ship hulls (this species may have a long history of being ship-transported over the world).

 

Citations

Hydroides brachycantha.
—Dew, B. 1959. Serpulidae (Polychaeta) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 19–56 [28, fig. 7].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [222].
—Imajima, M. 1982. Serpulinae (Polychaetous Annelids) from the Palau and Yap Islands, Micronesia. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 23: 37–55 [43–44, fig. 3].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1984. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Truk, Ponape and Majuro Islands, with some other new Indo-Pacific records. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 27: 35–66 [49–51, fig. 5].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1986. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Nauru, the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) and the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 32: 1–16 [3].

 

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 Hydroides Gunnerus, 1768 13-Jan-2017 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 03-Nov-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 09-Aug-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)