Species Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) noduliferum Stimpson, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phascolosma noduliferum Stimpson, W. 1855. Descriptions of some new marine invertebrates from the Chinese and Japanese seas. Gephyrea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7: 390-391 [390].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, (under stones), Port Jackson, NSW.
• Phascolosma grayi Baird, W.B. 1868. Monograph of the species of worms belonging to the subclass Gephyrea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 77-114 [88].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

The most common species found along the NSW coast.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
• New Zealand
  • Campbell Is.
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Continental rise, continental shelf, continental slope, intertidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal from Australia, deeper waters off the non-Australian localities (down to 1140m).

 

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [181]

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 [714-715]

Edgar, G.J. 1997. Australian Marine Life, the plants and animals of temperate waters. Kew, Victoria, Australia : Reed Books 544 pp. [164]

Edmonds, S.J. 1956. Australian Sipunculoidea II. The genera Phascolosoma, Dendrostomum, Golfingia, Aspidosiphon and Cloeosiphon. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: 281-315 [286-288]

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [62]

Edmonds, S.J. 1982. Sipunculans (Phylum Sipuncula). pp. 299-311 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp. [305]

 

History of changes

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