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Species Phylo felix Kinberg, 1866

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia


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

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, NE coast
  • New Zealand

Nearctic Region

  • United States of America
    • California

Neotropical Region

  • Brazil

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, estuary, seagrass, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In seagrass beds and sand in estuaries down to depths of about 100 m.

 

Citations

Phylo felix.
—Hartman, O. 1957. Orbiniidae, Apistobranchidae, Paraonidae and Longosomidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 15: 211–393 [262–265, pl. 23].
—Day, J.H. 1977. A Review of the Australian and New Zealand Orbiniidae (Annelida: Polychaeta). pp. 217–246 in Reish, D.J. & Fauchald, K. (eds). Essays on Polychaetous Annelids in Memory of Dr. Olga Hartman. Los Angeles : Allan Hancock Press 604 pp. [234].
—Hutchings, P. & Rainer, S.F. 1979. The polychaete fauna of Careel Bay, Pittwater, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 13: 745–796 [762–763].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [53].

 

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 POLYCHAETA Claparède, 1864 23-Aug-2021 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 07-Dec-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)