Genus Lepidasthenia Malmgren, 1867

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Genus Lepidasthenia Malmgren, 1867

Lepidasthenia Malmgren, A.J. 1867. Annulata polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Grönlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 24: 127-255 [139].
Type species:
Polynoe elegans Grube, 1840 by original designation.
Nectochaeta Marenzeller, E. von 1892. Sur une Polynoide pélagique (Nectochaeta grimaldii, nov. gen., nov. sp.) recueillie par l'Hirondelle en 1888. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 17: 183-185 [183].
Harmopsides Chamberlin, R.V. 1919. Albatross Polychaeta (Rep. Sci. Res. Exp. Albatross). Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University 48: 1-514 [48].
Lepidametria Webster, H.E. 1879. Annelida Chaetopoda of the Virginian coast. Transactions of the Albany Institute, New York 9: 202-269 [209].

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, 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), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast
- 200 mile fishing zone: W oceanic
New Zealand
- North Island
- South Island

Nearctic Region

United States of America
- California

Palaearctic Region

Japan

Citations

Lepidasthenia.
—Fauvel, P. 1923. Faune de France. Vol 5 Polychètes errantes. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–488 pp. [86].
—Uschakov, P.V. 1955. Polychaeta from the Far-Eastern Seas of the USSR. Moscow : Akademiya NAUK SSS 1–443 pp. [translated from Russian by the Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem 1965] [128].

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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