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Species Polydora hoplura Claparède, 1870

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania


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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • South Africa

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
  • New Zealand

Palaearctic Region

  • Italy
    • Italy (Mainland)

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

On jetty piles.

 

Citations

Polydora hoplura.
—Carazzi, D. 1893. Revisione del genere Polydora Bosc, e cenni su due specie che vivono sulle ostriche. Mittheilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel 11: 4–45 [20].
—Fauvel, P. 1927. Faune de France Vol. 16 Polychètes sedentaires. Addenda aux Errantes, Archiannélides, Myzostomaires. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–494 pp. [50].
—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) [468].
—Read, G.B. 1975. Systematics and biology of polydorid species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from Wellington Harbour. Journal the Royal Society of New Zealand 5: 395–419 [411].
—Blake, J.A. & Kudenov, J.D. 1978. The Spionidae (Polychaeta) from southeastern Australia and adjacent areas with a revision of the genera. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 39: 171–280 [264, fig. 47].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Turvey, S.P. 1984. The Spionidae of South Australia (Annelida: Polychaeta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 1–20 [15].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1990. Teil 15. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen und tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Lake Macquarie (New South Wales) im Süden und Gladstone (Queensland) im Norden. In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 41–87 pp. [71].

 

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 29-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 16-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)