Genus Sphaerodoropsis Hartman & Fauchald, 1971

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaerodoropsis Hartman, O. & Fauchald, K. 1971. Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology 6: 1-327 [69].

  Type species:

   Sphaerodorum sphaerulifer Moore, 1911 by original designation.

Introduction

In their revision of the family Sphaerodopsidae, Capa and Bakken (2015: 262) described an unnamed species (as Sphaerodoropsis sp.) from Western Australia, based on a single specimen. More recently, another unnamed species of Sphaerodoropsis was reported from a pilot whale carcass off Byron Bay, New South Wales, by Georgieva et al. (2023).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Capa, M. & Bakken, T. 2015. Revision of the Australian Sphaerodoridae (Annelida) including the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4000(2): 227-267

Georgieva, M.N., Wiklund, H., Ramos, D.A., Neal, L., Glasby, C.J. & Gunton, L.M. 2023. The annelid community of a natural deep-sea whale fall off Eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 75(3): 167–213

History of changes