Species Selenaria maculata Busk, 1854

Museums

Regional Maps

• Selenaria maculata Busk, G. 1854. Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the collection of the British Museum, Part 2. London : Trustees of the British Museum 55-120 pp. [101] [figured in 1852 Pl.1, Fig. 15,16].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1854.11.15.152, Bass Strait, HMS Rattlesnake.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1854.11.15.152B 1, Bass Strait, HMS Rattlesnake.
• Selenaria flagellifera Maplestone, C.M. 1911. The results of deep-sea investigations in the Tasman Sea. 1 - The expedition of the H.M.C.S. "Miner". 5 - Polyzoa supplement. Records of the Australian Museum 8: 118-119 [118] [junior subjective synonym of Selenaria maculata Busk, 1852].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM U372 1 colony, 22 miles east of Port Jackson, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Colonial, continental shelf, filter-feeder, free-living.

History of changes