Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Micronephthys sphaerocirrata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)

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Species Micronephthys sphaerocirrata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Not recorded south of Botany Bay.


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

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: Central E coast, Lower E coast, NE coast

Palaearctic Region

  • Iran

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

From sand and mud down to 500 m depth.

 

Citations

Nephthys sphaerocirrata.
—Day, J.H. 1953. The Polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part. 2. Errant species from Cape shores and estuaries. Annals of the Natal Museum 12(3): 397–441 [431].

Micronephthys sphaerocirrata.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [347–349, figs 15.3].
—Rainer, S.F. & Hutchings, P. 1977. Nephtyidae (Polychaeta: Errantia) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 307–347 [320–322, figs 12–16].
—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 [43].

Misidentifications

misidentification of Micronephthys sphaerocirrata by Fauchald, K. 1968. Nephtyidae (Polychaeta) from the Bay of Nha Trang, South Vietnam. NAGA Report 4(3): 1–33 [17–18, figs 36–40].

 

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 27-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)