Species Sabellastarte indica (Savigny in Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sabella indica Savigny, J.-C. in Lamarck, J.P. de 1818. Histoire Naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, presentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédes d'une I. Paris : Déterville Vol. 5 pp. 1-612.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.
• Spirographis australiensis Haswell, W.A. 1884. The marine annelids of the order Serpulea. Some observations on their anatomy, with the characteristics of the Australian species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 649-675 [673].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific and tropical Atlantic Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, sublittoral.

 

Citations

Sabella indica.
—Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret [432].
—Ehlers, E. 1897. Polychetaen. Hamburg : Hamburger Magalhaenischen Sammelreise 1–148 pp. [15].

Sabellastarte indica.
—Augener, H. 1914. Polychaeta II. Sedentaria. pp. 1–172 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Fischer Vol. 5 [115–122, pl. 1, fig. 20].
—Augener, H. 1927. Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914–1916. No. 38. Polychaeten von Südost und Süd-Australien. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk Førenig i København 83: 71–275 [259–266].
—Fauvel, P. 1930. Annélides polychètes de nouvelle-Calédonie, recueillies par Mme. A. Pruvot-Fol en 1928. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 69: 501–562 [555–556].
—Fauvel, P. 1953. The Fauna of India, including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Annelida Polychaeta. Allahabad : The Indian Press 1–507 pp. [445, fig. 235].
—Rullier, F. 1965. Contribution à la faune des Annélides Polychètes de l'Australie. Papers, Department of Zoology, University of Queensland Papers 2(9): 163–201 [197].
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [39].
—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. [151].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		29-Oct-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		08-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)