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Species Leodamas johnstonei (Day, 1934)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria


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)

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].

 

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 POLYCHAETA Claparède, 1864 23-Aug-2021 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 07-Dec-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)