Species Floresorchestia australis Lowry & Springthorpe, 2009

Museums

Regional Maps

• Floresorchestia australis Lowry, J.K. & Springthorpe, R.T. 2009. The genus Floresorchestia (Amphipoda: Talitridae) in tropical Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 25: 65-70 [65, figs. 1-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P80 ♀ (ovigerous), 9.2 mm, Evidently living on pebble beach in the supralittoral zone and on the cliff face behind the beach.
  Paratype(s) NTM Cr16879 ovigerous ♀ 9.16 mm; NTM Cr13149 ♂ “b”, 9.16 mm; NTM Cr13149 ♂ “c”, 7.4 mm; NTM Cr16882 5 ♂, 4 ♀; AM P80701 1 ♂, 1 ♀;
  Status unknown, NTM Crxxxxx male “a”, 8.5 mm, Evidently living on pebble beach in the supralittoral zone and on the cliff face behind the beach.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26)

Ecological Descriptors

Detritivore, marine, supralittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Supralittoral beach wrack

General References

Lowry, J.K. & Springthorpe, R.T. 2015. The tropical talitrid genus Floresorchestia (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). Zootaxa 3935(1): 1-68 [17]

History of changes