Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

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Species Lepidonotus oculatus Baird, 1865

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Down 160 m depth.

 

Misidentifications

as Thormora argus.
—Haswell, W.A. 1883. A monograph of the Australian Aphroditea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 250–298 [280, pl. 8].

Citations

Lepidonotus oculatus.
—Haswell, W.A. 1883. A monograph of the Australian Aphroditea. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 250–298 [281].
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [171–173, pl. 4, figs 20–23].
—Fauvel, P. 1922. Annélides polychètes de l'Archipel Houtman Abrolhos (Australie occidentale) recueilles par M. le Professeur W.G. Dakin, F.L.S. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 34: 487–500 [489–490].
—Augener, H. 1922. Australische Polychaeten des Hamburger Zoologischen Museums. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 88A: 1–37 [7–11, fig. 1].
—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 [172].
—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. [314–317, fig. 4].

 

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)