Genus Lepidonotus Leach, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepidonotus Leach, W.E. 1816. Vermes Polychaeta. Encyclopedia Britannica Supplement. Vol. 6 4th edn Edinburgh : A. Constable. 451-452 pp.

  Type species:

   Aphrodita clava Montagu, 1808 by original designation.
• Eumolpe Blainville, H. de 1828. Dictionnaire des Sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes … d'après l'état actuel de nos connais sciences, soit relativement a l'utilité qu'en peuvent retirer la mediciné. Vol. 1.

  Type species:

   Lepidonotus squamatus Linné, 1758 (=Aphrodita squamata (Linné, 1758)) by subsequent designation, see Malmgren, A.J. 1867. Annulata polychaeta Spetsbergiae, Grönlandiae, Islandiae et Scandinaviae hactenus cognita. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 24: 127-255.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• Mozambique

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, S oceanic
  • Coral Sea Islands Territory
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
  • North Island
  • South Island

Neotropical Region

• Chile

Oriental Region

• India
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka

Citations

Lepidonotus.
—McIntosh, W.C. 1900. A Monograph of British Annelids. 1(2): Polychaeta, Amphinomidae to Sigalionidae. London : Ray Society 215–442 pp. [273].
—Pettibone, M.H. 1963. Marine Polychaete worms of the New England Region. 1. Aphroditidae through Trochochaetidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 227: 1–356 [16].
—Ebbs, N.K. 1966. The coral-inhabiting polychaetes of the northern Florida reef tract Part I Aphroditidae, Polynoidae, Amphinomidae, Eunicidae and Lysaretidae. Bulletin of Marine Science 16: 485–555 [493].

 

General References

Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1991. Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Island and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. pp. 9-82 in Crosnier, A. Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A 8: 466 [64]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)