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Species Websterinereis punctata (Wesenberg-Lund, 1949)

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Also Persian Gulf.


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

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Mozambique
  • South Africa

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast

Palaearctic Region

  • Iran

Ecological Descriptors

Mud bottom, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

4 m depth in Australia, 2–59 m depth worldwide.

 

Citations

Laeonereis anklyoseta.
—[Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1–628 [243].

Nicon punctata.
—Hartman, O. 1959. Catalogue of the Polychaetous Annelids of the World. Parts 1 & 2. Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 23: 1–628 [245, 274].

Websterinereis punctata.
—Stephenson, W., Williams, W.T. & Cook, S.D. 1974. The benthic fauna of soft bottoms, southern Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 17: 73–123 [112].
—Hutchings, P. & Reid, A. 1990. The Nereididae (Polychaeta) from Australia — Gymnonereidinae sensu Fitzhugh, 1987: Australonereis, Ceratocephale, Dendronereides, Gymnonereis, Nicon, Olganereis and Websterinereis. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 69–100 [92].

 

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 08-Jul-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 22-Apr-2013 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 29-Oct-2010 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 08-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)