Species Polyodontes australiensis (McIntosh, 1885)

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Species Polyodontes australiensis (McIntosh, 1885)

Eupompe australiensis McIntosh, W.C. 1885. Report on the Annelida Polychaeta collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 12: 1-554 [135-139].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1885.12.1.107 (anterior piece of 30 segments), near Wednesday Island, NW of Cape York, Queensland.

Generic Combinations

Polyodontes australiensis (McIntosh, 1885). —
Hartman, O. 1939. Polychaetous annelids. Part I. Aphroditidae to Pisionidae. Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions 7: 1-154 [82]
Hartman, O. 1966. New records of some little known Australian polychaetous annelids. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 361-365 [361, pl. 36]
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 [17, fig. 5]
Pettibone, M.H. 1989. Revision of the Aphroditoid Polychaetes of the family Acoetidae Kinberg (=Polyodontidae Augener) and reestablishment of Acoetes Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832, and Euarche Ehlers, 1887. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 464: 1-138 [103–106, figs 73–74]

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

Northern Shelf Province (25), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

10–119 m depth.

General References

Benham, W.B. 1915. Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, Part 1. pp. 171–237 in Dannevig, H.C. (ed.) Biological Results of the Fisheries Expedition F.I.S. Endeavour 1909–14. Sydney Vol. 3. [202–203]

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	Polyodontes Renier in Blainville, 1828	24-Jun-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
17-Oct-2023		07-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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