Species Aspidosiphon (Paraspidosiphon) laevis Quatrefages, 1865

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aspidosiphon laeve Quatrefages, A. de 1865. Histoire naturelle des Annéles marins et d'eau douce. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret pp. 1-794. [609].
• Aspidosiphon cumingii Baird, W.B. 1868. Monograph of the species of worms belonging to the subclass Gephyrea. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1868: 77-114 [102].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH, Philippines.
• Aspidosiphon major Vaillant, L. 1871. Géphyriens. In, Folin, L.de. & Perier, L. (eds). Les Fonds. Paris : Savy Vol. 4. [270].
• Aspidosiphon klunzingeri Selenka, E. & Bülow, C. 1883. Die Sipunculiden. In, Selenka, E., Man, J.G. de & Bülow, C. (eds). Reisen in Archipel Philippinen van Dr. C. Semper. Leipsig : Leipsig und Wiesbaden Vol. 1 133 pp. [115].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Philippines.
• Aspidosiphon gigas Sluiter, C.P. 1884. Beiträge der Gephyreen aus dem Malayischen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 43: 26-88 [39].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Malaysian Archipelago.
• Aspidosiphon angulatus Ikeda, I. 1904. The gephyrea of Japan. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 20(4): 1-87 [45].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Japan.
• Aspidosiphon speciosus Gerould, J.H. 1913. The sipunculids of the eastern coast of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44: 373-437 [426].
• Aspidosiphon grandis Sato, H. 1939. Studies on the Echiuroidea, Sipunculoidea and Priapuloidea of Japan. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University 4 14: 339-460 [414].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Japan.
• Aspidosiphon pachydermatus Wesenberg-Lund, E. 1937. Gephyrea. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle du Belgique 13(36): 1-23 [9].
• Aspidosiphon brasiliensis Cordero, E.H. & Mello-Leitão, A. 1952. Duas novas éspecies do gênero Aspidosiphon da Ihla Trinidade. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro 50: 277-295 [277].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Brazil.
• Paraspidosiphon johnstoni Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [51].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Aspidosiphon quatrefagesi Saiz Salinas, J.I. 1984. Los tipos de sipuncúlidos de De Quatrefages del Museo de Paris. Bilbao : Servicio Editorial Universidad del Pais Vasco 258 pp. [49].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread, but low density, in warm waters of the Indo-West pacific Ocean; also present in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
• Hawaii

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Canary Islands
• Japan

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, rock reef, subtidal.

 

General References

Cutler, E.B. 1994. The Sipuncula, their Systematics, Biology, and Evolution. New York : Cornell University Press 480 pp. [222-224]

Edmonds, S.J. 1956. Australian Sipunculoidea II. The genera Phascolosoma, Dendrostomum, Golfingia, Aspidosiphon and Cloeosiphon. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: 281-315 [308-309] (as Aspidosiphon klunzingeri)

Edmonds, S.J. 1980. A review of the systematics of Australian sipunculans (Sipuncula). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 18: 1-74 [50-53] (as Paraspidosiphon cumingii (p. 50) and Paraspidosiphon johnstoni (pp. 51-53))

 

History of changes

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