Species Sternaspis scutata (Renier, 1807)

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Species Sternaspis scutata (Renier, 1807)

Echinorhynchus scutatus Renier, S.A. 1807. Tavole per servire alla classificazione e connoscenza degli Animali. Padova : Stabe fils. [531].
Type data:
Status unknown, Mediterranean Sea.
Sternaspis thalassemoides Otto, A.G. 1821. Animalium maritimorum nondum editorum genera duo. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae 10: 618-634 [619].
Type data:
Status unknown, Italy.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan from Arctic to Antarctic.

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), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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: Central E coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast
New Zealand
- North Island
- South Island

Ecological Descriptors

Abyssal, continental shelf, continental slope, estuary, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Down to 4000 m depth.

Citations

Sternaspis scutatus.
—Benham, W.B. 1916. Report on the Polychaeta obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, Part 2. pp. 125–162 in Dannevig, H.C. (ed.) Biological Results of the Fisheries Expedition F.I.S. Endeavour 1909–14. Sydney Vol. 4. [154].
—Fauvel, P. 1927. Faune de France Vol. 16 Polychètes sedentaires. Addenda aux Errantes, Archiannélides, Myzostomaires. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–494 pp. [216, fig. 76a–g].
—Day, J.H. 1967. A Monograph on the Polychaeta of Southern Africa. Pt 1, Erranta pp. 1–458; Pt 2, Sedentaria pp. 459–878. London : Publication of the British Museum (Natural History) [648, fig. 31.1].
—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 Polychaeta. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 75–218 pp. [144].

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		21-Dec-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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