Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Simplaria pseudomilitaris (Thiriot-Quiévreux, 1965)

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Species Simplaria pseudomilitaris (Thiriot-Quiévreux, 1965)


Compiler and date details

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

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in warm and temperate waters.


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

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Commonly found high up in the intertidal region in pools.

 

Citations

Pileolaria (Simplicaria) pseudomilitaris.
—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 [126–128, fig. 9].
—Vine, P.J. 1977. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Spirorbinae (Polychaeta: Serpulidae). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 68: 1–68 [42, figs 21e, 24, 25a].

Misidentifications

as Spirorbis berkeleyanus.
–Harris, T. 1968. Spirorbis species (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) from the Bay of Naples with the description of a new species. Pubblicazioni della Stazione Zoologica di Napoli 36: 1–20.

 

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 03-Nov-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 09-Aug-2010 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)