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Species Schistomeringos loveni (Kinberg, 1865)


Compiler and date details

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

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
  • New Zealand
    • North Island
    • South Island

Ecological Descriptors

Continental slope, intertidal, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Intertidal to 30 m depth in protected bays and lagoons.

 

Citations

Staurocephalus loveni.
—Kinberg, J.G.H. 1910. Annulater. In, Kinberg, J.G.H. (ed). Konglia Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden under befäl af C.A. Virgin åren 1851–1853. Vetenskapliga Iakttagelser på Konung Oscar den Förstes befallning utgifna delen. Uppsala and Stockholm : Almquist and Wicksells 78 pp. [50, pl. 21].
—Augener, H. 1922. Revision der Australischen Polychaeten-typen von Kinberg. Arkiv för Zoologi 14: 1–42 [31–32].

Schistomeringos loveni.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [51, fig. 16].
—Glasby, C.J. 1984. A review of Dorvillea and Schistomeringos (Annelida: Polychaeta) chiefly from southern and eastern Australia with a description of a new species of Schistomeringos. pp. 98–111 in Hutchings, P.A. (ed). Proceedings of the First International Polychaete Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 1983. Sydney : The Linnean Society of New South Wales 483 pp. [99–100, fig. 1].

Misidentifications

as Schistomeringos neglecta.
—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. [130].

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 09-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)