Species Oxydromus angustifrons (Grube, 1878)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Irma angustifrons Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperial de la Société des Sciences, Saint Pétersburg 7 25: ix 1-300 pls 1-15 [108-109].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMB, Philippines.

Generic Combinations

• Ophiodromus angustifrons (Grube, 1878).
• Oxydromus angustifrons (Grube, 1878). —
  Villalobos-Guerrero, T.F. & Harris, L.H. 2012. Oxydromus Grube, 1855 reinstated over Ophiodromus Sars, 1862 (Polychaeta, Hesionidae). ZooKeys 241: 21–31

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Found down to 50 m depth.

Citations

Irma angustifrons.
—Augener, H. 1913. Polychaeta I. Errantia. pp. 65–304 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 4 [189–190].

Podarke angustifrons.
—Augener, H. 1927. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 38. Polychaeten von Südost und Süd-Australien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 83: 71–275 [141–143].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [109, fig. 52].
—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 [27–28, fig. 10].

Remarks

Pleijel, F. 1998. Phylogeny and classification of Hesionidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta 27: 89–163 showed that I. angustrifrons Grube, 1878 belongs in Ophiodromus.

History of changes