Species Loimia ochracea (Grube, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebella (Loimia) ochracea Grube, A.-E. 1878. Anneliden-Ausbeute SMS 'Gazelle'. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1877: 509-554 [547-548].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ZMB 906, Mermaid Cove, Western Australia.
  Paratype(s) UWP 583 (fragments in very poor condition).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, N coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Mud bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

At 30 m associated with dead coral substrata.

 

Citations

Loimia ochracea.
—Hutchings, P.A. 1997. The Terebellidae (Polychaeta) of northern Australia with a key to all the described species of the region. pp. 133–161 in Hanley, J.R., Caswell, G., Megiriam, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). Proceedings of the 6th International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Darwin, NT : Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory and the Australian Marine Sciences Association 446 pp. [152–154, fig. 6A–G].

 

General References

Hutchings, P.A. & Johnson, R.T. 2011. Lumbrineris latreilli Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1834, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd (may be equivalent to Loimia ingens as this was the only species found in the type locality of L. ochracea, Dampier Archipelago, see ; if so then L. ochracea would take priority)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		22-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)