Species Pomatostegus stellatus (Abildgaard, 1789)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebella stellatus Abildgaard, P.C. 1789. Beschreibung 1. einer grossen Seeblase (Holothuria priapus Linn.), 2. zween Arten des Steinbohres (Terebella Linn.), 3. einer grossen Sandröhre (Sabella Linn.). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 9: 133-146 [142].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, West Indies.
• Pomatostegus actinoceros Mörch, O.A.L. 1863. Revisio critica Serpulidarum. Et Bidrag til Roerormenes Naturhistorie. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 1: 347-470, 1 pl. [400].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Philippines.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circum-tropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Gulf of Carp., Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast
• Solomon Islands

Oriental Region

• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Pomatostegus stellatus.
—Pixell, H.L.M. 1913. Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean, together with some species from the Cape Verde Islands. The Serpulidae, with a classification of the genera Hydroides and Eupomatus. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 16: 69–92 [79].
—Fauvel, P. 1932. Annelida Polychaeta of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 12: 1–262 [246].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [465, fig. 248].
—Okuda, S. 1937. Polychaetous annelids from the Palau Islands and adjacent waters, the South Sea Islands. Bulletin of the Biogeographical Society of Japan 7: 257–315, 59 figs [309–311, figs 56–58].
—Dew, B. 1959. Serpulidae (Polychaeta) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 25: 19–56 [41–42, fig. 14].
—Pillai, T.G. 1960. Some marine and brackish-water serpulid polychaetes from Ceylon, including new genera and species. Ceylon Journal of Science 3: 1–40 [23–25, text fig. 9].
—Straughan, D. 1967. Marine Serpulidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) of eastern Queensland and New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 201–261 [238].
—Imajima, M. 1977. Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) collected around Chichi-jima (Ogasawara Islands). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 10: 89–111 [101–102, fig. 7].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). 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. 75–218 pp. [153].

Pomatostegus actinoceros.
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [271–273].
—Willey, A. 1905. Report on the Polychaeta collected by Professor Herdman at Ceylon in 1902. Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar. Suppl. 4. 243–324 pp. [314, pl. 8].
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 [152–155].

 

History of changes

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)