Species Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, 1939
- Acanthephyra quadrispinosa Kemp, S. 1939. On Acanthephyra purpurea and its allies (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hoplophoridae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(11): 568-579 [571, 576, 578].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH, E South Atlantic from 32°S to 40°S. - Acanthephyra batei Stebbing, T.R.R. 1905. South African Crustacea, Pt III. Marine Investigations in South Africa IV: 21-123 pls 17-24 [107 pl. 24B] [junior homonym of A. batei Faxon, 1895].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAM (?), Cape Point Lighthouse, South Africa.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Chace, F.A., Jr 1986. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910. Part 4: Families Oplophoridae and Nematocarcinidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 432: i-iv, 1-82 [26]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
South Atlantic, Indo-Pacific Oceans.
IMCRA
Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), West Tasmania Transition (9)
Other Regions
Australian Antarctic Territory
Ecological Descriptors
Bathypelagic, continental rise, continental slope, mesopelagic, oceanic province.
Extra Ecological Information
Depth 250–1700 m.
General References
Griffiths, F.B. & Brandt, B. 1983. Distribution of mesopelagic decapod Crustacea in and around a warm-core eddy in the Tasman Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 12: 175-184
Griffiths, F.B. & Brandt, S.B. 1983. Mesopelagic Crustacea in and around a warm-core eddy in the Tasman Sea off eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 34(4): 609-623
Griffiths, F.B. & Wadley, V.A. 1986. A synoptic comparison of fishes and crustaceans from a warm-core eddy, the East-Australian Current, the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea. Deep-Sea Research 33(11/12): 1907-1922
Wasmer, R.A. 1993. Pelagic shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) from six USNS Eltanin cruises in the Southeastern Indian Ocean, Tasman Sea, and the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the Ross Sea. Biology of the Antarctic Seas. XXII 58: 49-91 [66]
History of changes
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