Species Rhabdopleura annulata Norman, 1921
- Rhabdopleura annulata Norman, J.R. 1921. Rhabdopleura. British Antarctic 'Terra Nova' Expedition. Zoology 4(4): 95-102 [97-98].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1921.7.28.4, Summit, Great King, Three Kings Is., north of New Zealand, 25 miles, 549 m, rocky bottom, attached to stones and bivalve shells, in association with hydroids and Bryozoa.
Paratype(s) BMNH 1921.7.28.1; BMNH 1921.7.28.3.
Distribution
States
Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Heron Island, QLD to St Vincent Gulf, SA and off eastern TAS, also Australian Antarctic Territory; SW Pacific (Indonesia, New Zealand)
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, marine, sedentary.
Extra Ecological Information
Tubiculous, branching colonies, adhering to corals, calcareous algae, shells, stones, coarse sand, gravel, biogenic sediments, in association with Bryozoa, hydroids, tunicates, sponges, serpulids and foraminifera, at depths ranging from lower intertidal down to 800 m at 38º16.40´S 149º27.40´E, off Point Hicks, VIC (collector M.F. Gorman, NMV, during an R.V. Franklin survey of slope fauna).
General References
Broch, H. 1927. Die Pterobranchier Rhabdopleura Allman. Deutsche Südpolar Expedition 1901–1903 19(Zool. II): 468 [468]
Harmer, S.F. 1905. The Pterobranchia of the Siboga Expedition with an account of other species. Siboga-Expéditie Report 24: 1-132 [125]
Harmer, S.F. 1926. The Polyzoa of the Siboga Expedition. Part 2. Cheilostomata Anasca. Siboga-Expéditie Report 28B: 183-501 [182] (record of additional specimens of Pterobranchia not included op. cit.)
Johnston, T.H. 1937. A note on the occurrence of Rhabdopleura annulata in South Australian waters. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6(1): 105-107 [105]
Ramírez-Guerrero, G., Kocot, K.M. & Cameron, C.B. 2020. Zooid morphology and molecular phylogeny of the graptolite Rhabdopleura annulata (Hemichordata, Pterobranchia) from Heron Island, Australia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 98: 844-849
History of changes
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