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Species Vanadis formosa Claparède, 1870


Compiler and date details

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

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed, mainly in warm surface waters of the Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Oceans.


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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands
    • Kerguélen Island

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: NW coast

Palaearctic Region

  • Italy

Ecological Descriptors

Pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

0–50m depth.

 

Citations

Vanadis formosa.
—Fauvel, P. 1923. Faune de France. Vol 5 Polychètes errantes. Librairie de la Faculté des Sciences. Paris : Paul Lechevalier 1–488 pp. [205, fig. 77].
—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) [181, fig. 7].
—Uschakov, P.V. 1974. Polychaetes of the suborder Phyllodociformia of the Polar Basin and the north-western part of the Pacific (families Phyllodocidae, Alciopidae, Tomopteridae, Typhloscolecidae, and Lacydoniidae). Fauna of the U.S.S.R 102: 1–271 [203, pl. XXIV]

 

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 ALCIOPIDAE 24-Jun-2014 MODIFIED ABRS
17-Oct-2023 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)