Species Metavermilia acanthophora (Augener, 1914)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vermiliopsis acanthophora Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta Sedentaria. pp. 1-172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 pp. 1-700. [155-158].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Shark Bay, Western Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, sublittoral.

Citations

Vermiliopsis acanthophora.
—Dew, B. 1959. Serpulidae (Polychaeta) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 19–56 [33, fig. 9].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [234].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [40].

Metavermilia acanthophora.
—Imajima, M. 1976. Serpulid polychaetes from Tanega-shima, southwest Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 9: 123–143 [138–139, fig. 10].
—Imajima, M. 1977. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Islands). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 10: 89–111 [97].
—Imajima, M. 1979. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Cape Shionomisaki, Kii Peninsula. Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 12: 160–183 [171].
—Imajima, M. 1982. Serpulinae (Polychaetous Annelids) from the Palau and Yap Islands, Micronesia. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 23: 37–55 [51].
—Imajima, M. & ten Hove, H.A. 1986. Serpulinae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Nauru, the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) and the Solomon Islands. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology 32: 1–16 [9].

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