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Australian Faunal Directory

Species Artacamella torulosa Hutchings & Peart, 2000

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Species Artacamella torulosa Hutchings & Peart, 2000


Compiler and date details

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

  • Type data:
     Holotype AM W24124 (posteriorly incomplete, 28 segments), near the mouth of Althaus Ck, Halifax Bay, north of Townsville, Qld, 2-5 [19°10'S, 146°37'E].
    Paratype(s) AM W24118 1 specimen (posteriorly incomplete); AM W24121 7 specimens; AM W24127 1 specimen; AM W24115 2 specimens; BMNH 1999.1092–1093 2 specimens; LACM-AHF POLY 1926 1 specimen; USNM 186054 1 specimen (All paratypes from same locality as the holotype).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


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

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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, Lower E coast, N coast, NE coast, NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Down to about 84 m depth.

 

Misidentifications

as Trichobranchus glacialis.
—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 [113].

as Artacamella dibranchiata.
—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 [24] (in part).

 

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 15-Feb-2011 MODIFIED
17-Oct-2023 10-Sep-2010 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)