Species Longicarpus modestus (Quatrefages, 1865)

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Species Longicarpus modestus (Quatrefages, 1865)

Compiler and date details

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

Terebella modesta Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [365].
Type data:
Status unknown, MNHP No. 276a (probable syntype, incomplete), Jervis Bay, New South Wales.
Longicarpus glandulus Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1-118 [97].
Type data:
Holotype AM W195332, Port Jackson, NSW.
Paratype(s) AM W195333 many specimens, Port Jackson, NSW; USNM 81485 9 specimens, Port Phillip Bay, Vic; AHF Poly 1407 several specimens, Port Phillip Bay, Vic; BMNH ZB 1983.1749, Port Phillip Bay, Vic; NMV G 1718 1 specimen, Port Phillip Bay, Vic; NMV G1719 several specimens, Port Phillip Bay, Vic; G3429 3 specimens, Port Phillip Bay, Vic.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, 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), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, rock bottom, rock reef, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

To 30 m, protected bays, on rocky reefs associated with sponge beds, macroalgae holdfasts, also occurs in coral substrata and in sand sediment and in seagrass beds in the Albany region.

Citations

Longicarpus modestus.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1990. Additional new species of the family Terebellidae (Polychaeta) from Western Australia, with a key to all described species of the region. pp. 251–289 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. Western Australia Museum, Perth. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1 [274–275].

Misidentifications

as Amphitrite rubra.
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [265–67, fig. 27a–f].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [36] (in part).

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
17-Oct-2023	15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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