Species Albunea microps Miers, 1878

• Albunea microps Miers, E.J. 1878. Revision of the Hippidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 14: 312-336 pl. 5 [328 pl. 5 figs 12, 13].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1937.6.7.3 ♂, Sooloo Islands [Sulu Archipelago], Philippines.
• Albunea microps White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum viii 143 pp. [Date published Apr/1847] [129] [nom. nud.].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans (east Africa to Indonesia, Philippines, and southern Japan).

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Sand to sandy mud and shell-grit substrates, depth 3–45 m.

 

General References

Boyko, C.B. & Harvey, A.W. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: Albuneidae and Hippidae of the tropical Indo-West Pacific region. pp. 379-406 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 1-588 [386] (discussion of species status)

Markham, J.C. & Boyko, C.B. 1999. A new genus for Ione indecora Markham, 1988, a second record for that species, and a new congeneric species from Australia (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae: Ioninae). American Museum Novitates 3258: 1-7 (first Australian record)

 

History of changes

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