Species Sphaerosyllis bifurcata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1979)

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Species Sphaerosyllis bifurcata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1979)

Compiler and date details

Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Parapionosyllis bifurcata Hartmann-Schröder G. 1979. Teil 2. Die Polychaeten der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens (zwischen Derby im Norden und Port Hedland im Süden). In, Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeten und Ostracoden. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 76: 75–218 [96-97].
Type data:
Holotype ZMH P-15504 (42 segments), Port Hedland, WA.
Paratype(s) ZMH P-15505 1 specimen, Port Hedland, WA.

Generic Combinations

Sphaerosyllis bifurcata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1979).
Sphaerosyllis bifurcata (Hartmann-Schröder, 1979). —
San Martín, G. 2005. Exogoninae (Polychaeta: Syllidae) from Australia with the description of a new genus and twenty-two new species. Records of the Australian Museum 57: 39-152 [90]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

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

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Down to about 15 m depth.

Citations

Parapionosyllis bifurcata.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1991. Teil 16. Die Polychaeten der subtropisch-tropischen bis tropischen Ostküste Australiens zwischen Maclean (New South Wales) und Gladstone (Queensland) sowie von Heron Island (Groß Barriere-Riff). In Hartmann-Schröder, G. & Hartmann, G. Zur Kenntnis des Eulitorals der australischen Küsten unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 17–71 pp. [35].

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
17-Oct-2023	15-Feb-2011	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023	08-Apr-2010	ADDED
	24-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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