Subgenus Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) Leuckart, 1828

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phascolosoma Leuckart, F.S. 1828. Breves animalium quorumdam maxima parte marinorum descriptiones. Heidelberg. 9-23 pp. [22].

  Type species:

   Phascolosoma granulatum Leuckart, 1828 by original designation.
• Phascolosomum Diesing, K.M. 1851. Systema helminthum. Vindobonae : Braumüller Vol. II 588 pp. [63].
• Phymosomum Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret pp. 1-794. [621].
• Phymosoma Selenka, E., de Man, J.G. & Bülow, C. 1883. Reisen in Archipel Philippinen van Dr. C. Semper. Leipsig : Leipsig & Wiesbaden Vol. 1 pp. 1-133. [54].
• Physcosoma Selenka, E. 1897. Die Sipunculiden-Gattung Phymosoma. Zoologischer Anzeiger 20: 460 [460].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Somalia
• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic
  • Lord Howe Island
  • Norfolk Island
• Fiji
• Guam
• Hawaii
• Marshall Islands
• New Zealand
  • Campbell Is.
• Palau
• Papua New Guinea
  • New Britain
• Solomon Islands

Nearctic Region

• Mexico
  • Baja California
• United States of America
  • Alabama
  • Florida
  • Louisiana

Neotropical Region

• Jamaica
• Panama
• Venezuela

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• China (People's Republic)
• India
• Indonesia
  • Java
• Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka
• Vietnam

Palaearctic Region

• Azores
• Canary Islands
• Italy
  • Sicily
• Japan
• Spain

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [169]

Cutler, N.J. & Cutler, E.B. 1990. A revision of the subgenus Phascolosoma (Sipuncula: Phascolosoma). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103(3): 691-730 [700-701]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Jul-2023		21-Jul-2023	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)