Species Spadella cephaloptera (Busch, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sagitta cephaloptera Busch, W. 1851. Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklung einiger wirbellosen Seethiere. Berlin : A. Hirschwald 143 pp.

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Orkney Islands.
• Spadella moretonensis Johnston, T.H. & Taylor, B.B. 1919. Notes on Australian Chaetognath. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 31: 28-41 [36-38].

  Type data:

   Holotype Caloundra, Moreton Bay, Queensland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Thomson, J.M. 1954. The identity of Spadella moretonensis Johnston & Taylor. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 64(3): 45-49

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal between 40°N and 40°S.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic.

Extra Ecological Information

Often found in tidal pools on seaweeds on moderately exposed coasts; 0-10 m depth.

 

General References

Thomson, J.M. 1947. The Chaetognatha of South-Eastern Australia. Bulletin of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Australia 222: 1-43 [21]

Thomson, J.M. 1948. Some Chaetognatha of south-western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 31: 17-18

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)