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Species Loimia batilla Hutchings & Glasby, 1988


Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Type data:
     Holotype AM W5162 (complete specimen in 2 fragments, in total about 68 segments), south of Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [20°26'S, 147'05'E].
    Paratype(s) AHF Poly 1470 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; BMNH ZB 1986.71 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; USNM 99973 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W5088, W5094, W7107 3 specimens, south of Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Qld [20°26'S, 147'05'E]; AM W7097 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7098 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7099 3 specimens, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7100 6 specimens, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7101 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7102 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7103 2 specimens, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7104 1 specimen, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7105 3 specimens, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld; AM W7106 3 specimens, Middle Banks off Tangalooma, Moreton Bay, Qld.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) (S. Williams, pers. comm.).


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 Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia
    • Kalimantan

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand-mud sediment in protected embayments.

 

Misidentifications

as Loimia medusa.
—Hutchings, P. 1977. Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidiae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 1–38 [19].

 

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 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 06-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)