Species Lunularia capulus Busk, 1854

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Species Lunularia capulus Busk, 1854

Compiler and date details

July 2001 - Dr Philip Bock

Lunulites capulus Busk, G. 1854. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2. London : Trustees of the British Museum 55-120 pp. [100] [figured earlier in Busk 1852a].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1854.11.15.149A 1 colony, Bass Strait.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1854.11.15.149B 1 colony, Bass Strait.
Selenaria livingstonei Bretnall, R.W. 1922. Studies on Bryozoa. Part 2. Records of the Australian Museum 13(5): 189-192 [190].
Type data:
Holotype AM U952 1 colony, off Nora Head, NSW.
Paratype(s) AM U953 1 colony, off Nora Head, NSW; AM U954 1 colony, off Nora Head, NSW.
Lunulites patelliformis Maplestone, C.M. 1904. Notes on the Victorian fossil Selenariidae and descriptions of some new species (Recent and fossil). Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria 16: 207-217 [215].
Lunulites gibbosa Busk, G. 1854. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2. London : Trustees of the British Museum 55-120 pp. [100].
Type data:

Syntype(s) BMNH 1854.11.15.148 1 colony, Cape Capricorn, Qld; BMNH 1899.7.1.1268 1 colony, Cape Capricorn, Qld; BMNH 1899.7.1.1270 1 colony, Cape Capricorn, Qld; BMNH 1899.7.1.1273 1 colony, Cape Capricorn, Qld; BMNH 1899.7.1.4692 1 colony, Cape Capricorn, Qld.
Secondary source:
Cook, P.L. & Chimonides, P.J. 1986. Recent and fossil Lunulitidae (Bryozoa, Lunulites sensu lato and the genus Lunularia from Australasia.Cheilostomata) 6. Journal of Natural History 20: 681-705 [691].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

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, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Colonial, continental shelf, filter-feeder, free-living, sand bottom marine.

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)
25-Mar-2014	BRYOZOA Ehrenberg, 1831	14-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson (NMV) Elizabeth Greaves (NMV)
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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