Species Siphonosoma vastum (Selenka & Bülow, 1883)

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Species Siphonosoma vastum (Selenka & Bülow, 1883)

Sipunculus vastus Selenka, E. & Bülow, C. 1883. Die Sipunculiden. In, Selenka, E., Man, J.G. de & Bülow, C. (eds). Reisen in Archipel Philippinen van Dr. C. Semper. Leipsig : Leipsig und Wiesbaden Vol. 1 133 pp. [103].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMHB, Jaluit (Marshall Island, Pacific Ocean).
Sipunculus (Phascolosomum) violaceus Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret pp. 1-794. [619].
Siphonosoma crassum Fischer, W. 1919. Gephyreen der sudwestkuste australiens. Zoologischer Anzeiger 50: 277-285 [279].
Type data:
Holotype Point Cloates, WA.
Siphonosoma parvum Fischer, W. 1928. Über zwei neue Siphonosoma-Arten der Wurtemburgischen naturalien Sammlung zu Stuttgart. Zoologischer Anzeiger 76: 138-143 [141].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in Indo-West Pacific tropical and subtropical waters as far north as Miyakijima, Japan.

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 Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Mauritius

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast, Great Barrier Reef
Guam
Marshall Islands
New Caledonia
Papua New Guinea
- New Britain
Solomon Islands

Neotropical Region

Costa Rica

Oriental Region

Indonesia
Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
Maldives

Ecological Descriptors

Subtidal.

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [55]

Edmonds, S.J. 1955. Australian Sipunculoidea I. The genera Sipunculus, Xenosiphon and Siphonosoma. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 6: 82-97 [92-95]

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [15-16]

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)
21-Jul-2023		21-Jul-2023	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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