Species Petraliella magna (D'Orbigny, 1852)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Semieschara magna D'Orbigny, A. 1852. Paléontologie Française, Terrains Crétacés, V, Bryozoaires. Paris : Victor Masson 185-472 pp. [367].
• Lepralia japonica Busk, G. 1884. Polyzoa. Pt. I. Cheilostomata. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 10: xiv, 216 [143].
• Lepralia gigas Hincks, T. 1885. Contributions towards a general history of the marine Polyzoa. Part XV. Cheilostomata - Miscellaneous. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 254-257 [255].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Harmer, S.F. 1957. The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition. Part 4. Cheilostomata Ascophora II. Siboga-Expéditie Report 28D: 641-1147 [701]

Generic Combinations

• Petraliella magna (D'Orbigny, 1852).

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Colonial, continental shelf, filter-feeder, sessile, subtidal.

History of changes