Genus Protolaeospira Pixell, 1912

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Genus Protolaeospira Pixell, 1912

Compiler and date details

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

Protolaeospira Pixell, H.L.M. 1912. Polychaeta from the Pacific coast of North America. I. Serpulidae with a revised table of classification of the genus Spirorbis. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65: 784-805 [798].
Type species:
Spirorbis eximius Bush, 1904 (=Protolaeospira ambilateralis Pixell, 1912) by original designation.
Marsipospira Bailey, J.H. 1969. Methods of brood protection as a basis for reclassification of the Spirorbinae (Serpulidae). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 48: 387-407.
Pixellia Pillai, T.G. 1970. Studies on a collection of spirorbids from Ceylon, together with a critical review and revision of spirorbid systematics and an account of their phylogeny and zoogeography. Ceylon Journal of Science Biological Sciences 8: 100-172.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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)

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

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
Hawaii
New Zealand
- North Island

Nearctic Region

Canada
- British Columbia

Neotropical Region

Galapagos Islands

Citations

Protolaeospira.
—Knight-Jones, P. 1973. Spirorbinae (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) from South-Eastern Australia. A new genus, four new subgenera and seven new species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 24: 231–259 [236–237].
—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 [121].

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
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)

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