WoRMS taxon details
Balanoglossus australiensis Hill, 1894
AphiaID: 266569
AphiaID: 266569
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Hemichordata (Phylum) > Enteropneusta (Class) > [unassigned] Enteropneusta (Order) > Ptychoderidae (Family) > Balanoglossus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Balanoglossus delle Chiaje, 1829 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Hill J (1894) Preliminary note on a Balanoglossus from the coast of New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 324. [details] basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gordon, D. (2009). Bryozoa, Hemichordata. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Arnhem Coast to Gulf of Carpenteria [details] Central and Southern Great Barrier Reef [details] Central New Zealand [details] Manning-Hawkesbury [details] Solomon Archipelago [details] Solomon Sea [details] Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To SeaLifeBase | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: They live in burrows 8-10in deep in fine tidal sand. [details] Length: Larger members of this species can reach 20cm long. [details] Synonymy: B. australiensis was formerly classified as Ptychodera. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:266569 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Konikoff, C.; van der Land, J. (2013). Balanoglossus australiensis Hill, 1894. In: Shenkar, N; Swalla, B.J.; van der Land, J. (2013) Hemichordata World Database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=266569 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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