Species Thelepus extensus Hutchings & Glasby, 1987
Compiler and date details
Jan 2011 - P. Hutchings & M. Yerman, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Thelepus extensus 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 [233-236].
Type data:
Holotype AM W5979 ovigerous female (complete, 120 segments), West Island, SA.
Paratype(s) AHF Poly 1443 9 specimens, Karatta Beach, Cape Dombey, SA; NMV F50242 1 specimen, Bass Strait, Vic; USNM 097576 many specimens, Cape Everard, Vic; BMNH ZB 1985.7-28 22 specimens, Cape Everard, Vic; AM W198854 1 specimen, Two Peoples Bay, WA; AM W5974 4 specimens, Upper Spencer Gulf, SA; AM W198853 1 specimen, Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island, SA; AM W198858 1 specimen, Karatta Beach, Cape Dombey, SA; AM W198855 1 specimen, Gabo Island, Vic; AM W198856 1 specimen, Green Cape, NSW; W198857 1 specimen, Newport, Sydney, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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 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, N coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
Ecological Descriptors
Rock reef, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Intertidal to 50 m depth, on rocky reefs in crevices associated with algae and sponges, on soft bottoms associated with seagrasses.
Citations
Thelepus extensus.
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1989. Teil 14. Die Polychaeten der antiborealen und subtropisch-tropischen Küste Südost-Australiens zwischen Lakes Entrance (Victoria) im Süden und Maclean (New South Wales) im Norden. 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. 11–63 pp. [49].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Glasby, C.J. 1990. Additional new species of the family Terebellidae (Polychaeta) from Western Australia, with a key to all described species of the region. pp. 251–289 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., Kirkman, H. & Lethbridge, R. (eds). Proceedings of the Third International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Albany, Western Australia. Western Australia Museum, Perth. Perth : Western Australian Museum Vol. 1 [263–264].
Misidentifications
as Thelepus setosus.
—Knox, G.A. & Cameron, D.B. 1971. Port Phillip Survey 2. Polychaeta. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 32: 21–41 [36].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Recher, H.F. 1974. The fauna of Careel Bay with comments on the eceology of mangrove and seagrass communities. Australian Zoologist 18(2): 99–128 [105].
—Hutchings, P. 1977. Terebelliform Polychaeta of the families Ampharetidiae, Terebellidae and Trichobranchidae from Australia, chiefly from Moreton Bay, Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 31: 1–38 [15].
—Hartmann-Schröder, G. 1981. Teil 6. Die Polychaeten der tropisch-asubtropischen Westküste Australiens (zwischen Exmouth im Norden und Cervantes 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. 19–96 pp. [59].
—Hutchings, P.A. & Murray, A. 1984. Taxonomy of Polychaetes from the Hawkesbury River and the southern estuaries of New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 3: 1–118 [96].
History of changes
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