Species Leodamas johnstonei (Day, 1934)
- Scoloplos johnstonei Day, J.H. 1934. On a collection of South African Polychaeta, with a catalogue of the species recorded from South Africa, Angola, Mosambique, and Madagascar. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 39(263): 15-82 [58].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1934.1.19.291-292 2 specimens, False Bay, South Africa. - Scoloplos (Leodamas) uniramus Day, J.H. 1961. The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44: 463-560 [477].
Type data:
Status unknown, South Africa.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
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)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- Madagascar
- South Africa
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast
- Solomon Islands
Ecological Descriptors
Estuary, seagrass, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
In sandy subtidal seagrass beds (6–10 m depth) in estuaries.
Citations
Scoloplos (Leodamas) johnstonei.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [53–54].
Scoloplos (Leodamas) uniramus.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [552, fig. 23.6].
General References
Day, J.H. 1977. A Review of the Australian and New Zealand Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). pp. 217-246 in Reish, D.J. & Fauchald, K. (eds). Essays on Polychaetous Annelids in Memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. Los Angeles : Allan Hancock Press 604 pp. [231-232] (as Scoloplos (Leodamas) johnstonei)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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17-Oct-2023 | POLYCHAETA Claparède, 1864 | 23-Aug-2021 | MODIFIED | |
17-Oct-2023 | 07-Dec-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |