Species Sipunculus (Sipunculus) robustus Keferstein, 1865

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Species Sipunculus (Sipunculus) robustus Keferstein, 1865

Sipunculus robustus Keferstein, W. 1865. Beiträge zur anatomischen und systematischen Kenntnis der Sipunculiden. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 15: 404-445 [421].
Type data:
Status unknown, ZMH, Uvea (Wallis Island), Pacific Ocean.
Sipinculus gravieri Hérubel, M.A. 1904. Sur les sipunculides nouveaux rapportés de la mer rouge par M. Ch. Gravier (note préliminaire). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 10: 476-480 [478].
Type data:
Status unknown, Red Sea.
Sipunculus angasii Baird, W.B. 1868. Monograph of the species of worms belonging to the subclass Gephyrea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 77-114 [76].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, Port Lincoln, Spencer Gulf, SA.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Warm waters in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, also reported from the Red Sea and the Caribbean.

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 Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

Madagascar
South Africa

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast, NE coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
Indonesia
Marshall Islands
Palau
Wallis and Futuna Islands

Oriental Region

India
Laccadive (= Cannanore) Islands
Maldives
Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

Sand bottom marine, shallow.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand burrowing species that is often washed up on southern Australian sandy beaches after storms.

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [39]

Edmonds, S.J. 1955. Australian Sipunculoidea I. The genera Sipunculus, Xenosiphon and Siphonosoma. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 6: 82-97 [83-86] (as Sipunculus angasii from Australia)

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [9-10]

Edmonds, S.J. 1982. Sipunculans (Phylum Sipuncula). pp. 299-311 in Shepherd, S.A. & Thomas, I.M. (eds). Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia Adelaide : Government Printer Part 1 491 pp. [304]

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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