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Species Lepidonotus glaucus (Peters, 1854)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in tropical Indo-West Pacific.


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 Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Mozambique

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast
    • Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Often found in close association with eunicid worms.

 

Citations

Lepidonotus glaucus.
—Day, J.H. 1975. On a collection of Polychaeta from intertidal and shallow reefs near Perth, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 3: 167–208 [180–181].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1974. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der afrikanischen Westkuste zwischen Angola und Kap der Guten Hoffnug und der afrikanischen Ostkuste von Sudafrika und Mocambique unter besinderer Berucksichtigung der Polychaeten un Ostracoden. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 2 69: 95–228 [99].
—Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1990. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) of Albany, Western Australia. pp. 203–236 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1 [221–223, fig. 8].
—Hanley, J.R. & Burke, M. 1991. Polychaeta Polynoidae: Scaleworms of the Chesterfield Island and Fairway Reefs, Coral Sea. 9–82 in Crosnier, A. Resultats des Campagnes Musorstom. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle A 8: 466 [68–69, fig. 21]
—Hanley, J.R. 1993. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. pp. 305–320 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Fifth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1, 2 634 pp. [314].

Lepidonotus stellatus.
—Haswell, W.A. 1883. A monograph of the Australian Aphroditea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 250–298 [283].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [98–101].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [175–176, pl. 4, figs 15–17].
—Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A: 1–37 [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 29-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)