Genus Simplaria Knight-Jones, 1984

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Genus Simplaria Knight-Jones, 1984

Compiler and date details

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

Simplaria Knight-Jones, P. & Knight-Jones, E.W. 1984. Systematics, ecology and distribution of southern hemisphere spirorbids (Polychaeta; Spirorbidae). pp. 197-210 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. [nom. nov. for Simplicaria Knight-Jones, 1973].
Simplicaria Knight-Jones, P. 1973. Spirorbinae (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) from South-Eastern Australia. A new genus, four new subgenera and seven new species. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 24: 231-259 [junior homonym of Simplicaria Suter, 1891 (Mollusca: Grastropoda)].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, 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), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast
Hawaii
New Zealand
- North Island

Nearctic Region

United States of America
- California

Neotropical Region

Costa Rica
Galapagos Islands
Mexico
Panama

Palaearctic Region

France
Italy
Japan

Citations

Simplicaria.
—Knight-Jones, E.W., Knight-Jones, P. & Llewellyn, L.C. 1974. Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from southeastern Australia: Notes on their taxonomy, ecology and distribution. Records of the Australian Museum 29: 107–151 [126].

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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