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Species Phyllodoce longipes Kinberg, 1866

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales


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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • South Africa

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America
    • North Carolina

Neotropical Region

  • Chile
  • Mexico

Palaearctic Region

  • France
  • Ireland
  • United Kingdom

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On shell gravel and sand, mainly 15–40 m depth, down to about 150 m depth.

 

Citations

Phyllodoce longipes.
—Day, J.H. 1963. The polychaete fauna of South Africa Part 8. New species and records from grab samples and dredgings. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 10: 381–445.
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History).

Misidentifications

as Anaitides longipes.
—Gathof, J.M. 1984. Family Eunicidae Savigny, 1818. pp. 40–1–10–31 in Uebelacker, J.M. & Johnson, P.G. (eds). Taxonomic Guide to the Polychaetes of the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Mobile, Albama : Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Inc. Vol. VI.

Remarks

Pleijel (1988) believes the Australian record of this species in Hutchings & Murray (1984) is doubtful.

 

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 14-Jul-2014 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)