Species Malacoceros divisus Hutchings & Rainer, 1979

Museums

Regional Maps

• Malacoceros divisus Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745-796 [763-765].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM W8223 (22 segments), Careel Bay, Pittwater, NSW.
• Malacoceros sp. Hutchings, P.A. & Recher, H.F. 1974. The fauna of Careel Bay with comments on the eceology of mangrove and seagrass communities. The Australian Zoologist 18(2): 99-128 [105]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, seagrass, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Malacoceros divisus.
—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 [59].

 

General References

Hutchings, P.A. & Recher, H.F. 1974. The fauna of Careel Bay with comments on the eceology of mangrove and seagrass communities. The Australian Zoologist 18(2): 99-128 [105] (as Malacoceros sp.)

 

History of changes

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