Aetea anguina is a widely distributed Recent shallow-water species. Specimen illustrated is from Bass Strait, Australia.
Original description: Sertularia anguina Linnaeus, 1758.
Illustration: from Busk, 1852. Anguinaria spatulata is a junior synonym of Aetea anguina
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