Genus Thelepus Leuckart, 1849

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thelepus Leuckart, R. 1849. Zur Kenntnis der Fauna von Island. Arkiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 15: 149-208 [169].

  Type species:

   Amphitrite cincinnata Fabricius, 1780 (=Thelepus cincinnatus (Fabricius, 1780)) by monotypy.
• Lumara Stimpson, W. 1854. Synopsis of the marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan; or the region about the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 6: 1-67 [30].
• Phenacia Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [374].
• Heterophenacia Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Annélides et éephyriens. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. [389].
• Neottis Malmgren, A.J. 1866. Nordiska Hafs-Annulater. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 22: 355-410 [388].
• Thelephusa Verrill, A.E. 1871. Marine fauna of Eastport, Maine. Proceedings of the Essex Institute (Communications) 3: 2-6 [6].
• Thelepodopsis Sars, M. 1872. Diagnoser af nye annelider fra Christianiafjorden. Bulletin of the Mauritius Institute 1871: 406-417 [414].
• Protothelepus Verrill, A.E. 1900. XVIII. — Additions to the Turbellaria, Nemertina, and Annelida of the Bermudas, with revisions of some New England genera and species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10(2): 595-671 [662].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), 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), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carp., Lower E coast, Lower W coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: W oceanic
• New Zealand

Oriental Region

• Indonesia
• Philippines

Citations

Thelepus.
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1987. The Thelepinae (Terebellidae) from Australia, with a discussion of the generic and specific characters of the subfamily. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 7: 217–250 [226].

Phenacia.
—Grube, A.-E. 1878. Annulata Semperiana. Beiträge zur kenntniss der annelidenfauna der Philippinen nach den von Herrn Prof. Semper mitgebrachten sammlungen. Mémoires l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg 7 25: ix 1–300 pls 1–15 [233–234].

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
17-Oct-2023		03-Nov-2010	MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023		06-Sep-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)