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Species Pirothyris vercoi (Blochmann, 1910)

Magasella vercoi Blochmann, F. 1910. New Brachiopods from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 90-99 [author given in index as Verco, J.C., who wrote the introduction on pages 89-90] [91, 98, pl. 27, figs 1-5].
Type data:
Status unknown, SAMA, Backstairs Passage, South Australia.
Secondary source:
Richardson, J.R. 1987. Brachiopods from carbonate sands of the Australian shelf. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 99(1-2): 37-50 [43].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, 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)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, filter-feeder, marine, subtidal.

General References

Cotton, B.C. & Godfrey, F.K. 1943. A systematic list of the Echinodermata, Foraminifera, Hydroida, Brachiopoda of southern Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3: 1-36 [32] (recorded from SA and Vic. in 16-20 fathoms)

Gatliff, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1914. List of Recent Victorian Brachiopoda. The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 30(11): 210-214 [212] (distribution in Vic., remarks)

Richardson, J.R. 1987. Brachiopods from carbonate sands of the Australian shelf. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 99(1-2): 37-50 [44]

Richardson, J.R. 1997. Chapter 19. Brachiopods (Phylum Brachiopoda). pp. 999-1027 in Shepherd, S.A. & Davies, M. (eds). Marine invertebrates of Southern Australia. Richmond, SA : South Australian Research and Development Institute & Flora and Fauna of South Australia Handbook Committee Vol. 3 pp. 902-1264. [1020] (figs 19.6d, 19.13a, b; description, distribution, ecology)

Verco, J.C. 1910. The Brachiopods of South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 34: 89-99 [92] (SA record, depth data)

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)