Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Pileolaria militaris Claparède, 1870

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Species Pileolaria militaris Claparède, 1870


Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in warm and temperate waters.


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

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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

Afrotropical Region

  • Mozambique

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast
  • Hawaii

Neotropical Region

  • Mexico

Oriental Region

  • Sri Lanka

Palaearctic Region

  • Azores
  • France
  • Ireland
  • Italy
    • Italy (Mainland)
  • Spain
  • United Kingdom

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On stones, shells and algae in midlittoral zone on most fringing reefs.

 

Citations

Pileolaria (Pileolaria) militaris.
—Vine, P.J., Bailey-Brock, J.H. & Straughan, D. 1972. Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) of the Hawaiian Chain. Part II. Pacific Science 26: 150–182 [157–158, figs 2c, 3c, 5].
—Vine, P.J. 1972. Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Red Sea, including descriptions of a new genus and four new species. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 51: 177–201 [180–182, fig. 2].
—Knight-Jones, E.W., Knight-Jones, P. & Llewellyn, L.C. 1974. Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from southeastern Australia: Notes on their taxonomy, ecology and distribution. Records of the Australian Museum 29: 107–151 [124–126, fig. 8].
—Vine, P.J. & Bailey-Brock, J.H. 1984. Taxonomy and ecology of coral reef tube worms (Serpulidae, Spirorbidae) in the Sudanese Red Sea. Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 80: 135–156 [147].

 

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 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 03-Nov-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 09-Aug-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)