Species Lepidonotus polychromus Schmarda, 1861

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Species Lepidonotus polychromus Schmarda, 1861

Lepidonotus polychroma Schmarda, L.K. 1861. Neue Turbellarian, Rotatorien und Anneliden beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise un die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (zweite halfte). Leipzig : Wilhelm Engelmann pp. 1-164. [153].
Type data:
Status unknown, New Zealand
Comment: Schmarda’s collection was in the Zoologisches Institut der Universität Wien but many specimens have been destroyed.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, 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

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Lower W coast, Tas. Coast
New Zealand
- North Island
- South Island

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Citations

Lepidonotus polychroma.
—Ehlers, E. 1904. Neuseeländische Anneliden. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 3: 1–80 [7–8, pl. 1, figs 1–6].
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [101–102].
—Seidler, H.J. 1924. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Polynoiden IV. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 89A(11): 1–217 [24].
—Augener, H. 1924. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 18. Polychaeta II. Polychäten von Neuseeland I: Errantia. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 75: 241–441 [277–279].
—Monro, C.C.A. 1939. Polychaeta. Reports of the British and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition 1929-1931 (Zoology and Botany) B 4: 87–156 [101].

Polynoe polychroma.
—Hutton, F.W. 1879. Catalog of the hitherto described worms of New Zealand. (Turbellaria, Trematoda, Nermertina, Gephyrea, Chaetopoda). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 11: 314–327.

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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