Species Allorchestes compressus Dana, 1852

Museums

Regional Maps

• Allorchestes compressa Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e Class Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars III. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2: 201-220 [205].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), shores of Illawara, NSW.
• Allorchestes australis Dana, J.D. 1852. Conspectus crustaceorum quae in Orbis Terrarum circumnavigatione, Carolo Wilkes e Class Reipublicae Faederatae Duce, lexit et descripsit Jacobus D. Dana. Pars III. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2: 201-220 [206].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (lost), shores of Illawarra, NSW.
• Aspidophoreia diemenensis Haswell, W.A. 1880. On some new amphipods from Australia and Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5(1): 97-105 pls 5-7 [101, pl. 6 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM G5418 1 specimen, TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Barnard, J.L. 1974. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part II. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 139: i-v 1-148 [43]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Possibly also Campbell Island and Auckland Island (subantarctic).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, supralittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Inhabits large accumulations of detached macrophytes in the surf-zone of sandy beaches.

 

General References

Ahsanullah, M. 1982. Acute toxicity of chromium, mercury, molybdenum and nickel to the amphipod Allorchestes compressa. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 33: 465-474

Barnard, J.L. 1974. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part II. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 139: i-v 1-148

Robertson, A.I. & Lucas, J.S. 1983. Food choice, feeding rates and the turnover of macrophyte biomass by a surf-zone inhabiting amphipod. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 72: 99-124

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		19-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)