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Species Nephtys paradoxa Malm, 1874

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria


Extra Distribution Information

60 km SE of Green Cape, NSW; known from N Atlantic, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk and Subantarctic areas off Chile.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Known from 860 m depth in Australia, but up to as shallow as 50 m elsewhere.

 

Citations

Nephtys paradoxa.
—Fauchald, K. 1963. Nephtyidae (Polychaeta) from Norwegian waters. Sarsia 13: 1–28 [13–15, figs 1–3].
—Paxton, H. 1974. Contribution to the study of Australian Nephtyidae (Polychaeta). Records of the Australian Museum 28: 197–208 [204].

 

History of changes

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