Species Smittina purpurea (Hincks, 1881)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Smittia landsborovii purpurea Hincks, T. 1881. Contributions towards a general history of the marine Polyzoa. VI. Polyzoa from Bass's Straits. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 8: 1-14, 122-128 [123].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 1899.5.1.906 1 colony; three fragments (Hincks Collection. Type selected by (Brown 1952)), Bass Strait.
• Smittia cribraria Macgillivray, P.H. 1886. Descriptions of new or little-known Polyzoa. Part 9. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 22: 128-139 [133].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV F45810 3 slides, Port Phillip Heads.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Brown, D.A. 1952. The Tertiary cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand. London : Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) 405 pp. [322]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Colonial, continental shelf, encrusting, filter-feeder, sessile.

 

Notes

Recorded from a wide region, and as fossil material from New Zealand (Brown 1952). Records from outside Australia are considered to be dubious (Gordon 1989).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Mar-2014	BRYOZOA Ehrenberg, 1831	25-Mar-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Robin Wilson (NMV) Elizabeth Greaves (NMV)
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED