Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Marphysa mossambica (Peters, 1854)

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Species Marphysa mossambica (Peters, 1854)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Red Sea.


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

Northern Shelf Province (25), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Mozambique

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast

Oriental Region

  • Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

 

Citations

Marphysa mossambica.
—Crossland, C. 1903. On the marine fauna of Zanzibar and British East Africa from collections made by Cyril Crossland in the years 1901–1902. Polychaeta, Pt 2. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 2(9): 129–144, pls 14–15 [139 pl. 15]
—Fauvel, P. 1917. Annélides polychètes de l'Australie meridionale. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 56: 159–278 [232–235, fig. 22]
—Monro, C.C.A. 1931. Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Echiuroidea and Sipunculoidea. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 4: 1–37 [21].

 

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 07-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 10-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)