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Genus Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971

Introduction

In their revision of the family Sphaerodopsidae, Capa and Bakken (2015: 262) described an unnamed species (as Sphaerodoropsis sp.) from Western Australia, based on a single specimen. More recently, another unnamed species of Sphaerodoropsis was reported from a pilot whale carcass off Byron Bay, New South Wales, by Georgieva et al. (2023).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

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 SPHAERODORIDAE 15-Sep-2015 MODIFIED Dr Haylee Weaver
17-Oct-2023 03-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)