Species Protolaeospira capensis (Day, 1961)

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Species Protolaeospira capensis (Day, 1961)

Compiler and date details

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

Spirorbis capensis Day, J.H. 1961. The polychaete fauna of South Africa. Part 6. Sedentary species dredged off Cape coasts with a few new records from the shore. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44: 463-560 [554-556].
Type data:
Status unknown, SAM, False Bay, South Africa, 37 [34°11'1''S, 18°46'9''E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, 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

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, Tas. Coast
Hawaii
New Zealand
- North Island

Nearctic Region

Canada
- British Columbia

Neotropical Region

Galapagos Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, sublittoral.

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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