Species Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) pacificum Keferstein, 1866

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Species Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) pacificum Keferstein, 1866

Phascolosma pacificum Keferstein, W. 1866. Untersuchungen über einige amerikanischen Sipunculiden. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1866: 1-15 [8].
Type data:
Status unknown, Gilbert and Tarawa Ils (Kingsmill Group, Pacific Ocean).
Phascolosma asperum Grübe, E. 1868. Beschreibungen einiger von Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld gesammelter Anneliden und Gephyreen des rothen Meeres. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 18: 629-650 [642].
Type data:
Status unknown, Red Sea.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Recorded from the Red Sea and throughout the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

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

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Madagascar
Mauritius

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, N coast
Guam
Papua New Guinea
- New Britain

Oriental Region

China (People's Republic)
Indonesia
Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
Maldives
Philippines

Palaearctic Region

Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Shallow, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

At depths less than 3 m.

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [181-182]

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 [715-716]

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 [291-292]

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [63]

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)
21-Jul-2023		21-Jul-2023	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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