Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Paralaeospira levinseni (Caullery & Mesnil, 1897)

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Species Paralaeospira levinseni (Caullery & Mesnil, 1897)


Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania


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

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • South Africa

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands
    • South Orkney Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, Tas. Coast
  • New Zealand
    • North Island
    • South Island

Neotropical Region

  • Chile

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Found mainly on stones, shells and serpulid tubes at low water marks, also found attached to ascidians down to 30 m.

 

Citations

Spirorbis (Paralaeospira) levinseni.
—Vine, P.J. 1977. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 68: 1–68 [17–20, figs 2e, 6c, 8].

 

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 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 03-Nov-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 09-Aug-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)