Species Amphiascopsis cinctus (Claus, 1866)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dactylopus cinctus Claus, C. 1866. Die Copepoden-Fauna von Nizza. Ein Beitrag zur Charakteristik der Formen und deren Abänderungen 'im Sinne Darwins'. Schriften der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Gesamten Naturwissenschaften zu Marburg Supplement 1: 1-34 [27].
• Amphiascopsis australis Nicholls, A.G. 1941. Littoral Copepoda from South Australia. I — Harpacticoida. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 381-427 [414].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, SAMA 4♀ 1♂ (lat. long. not stated in by Nicholls), Sellicks Reef, Gulf St Vincent, South Australia.
• Amphiascopsis longipes Nicholls, A.G. 1941. Littoral Copepoda from South Australia. I — Harpacticoida. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 381-427 [412].

  Type data:

   
  Status unknown, SAMA 1♀ (collected from weed-covered reef exposed at very low tide; collected by B.J. Weeding, Feb, 1939; lat. long. not stated by Nicholls), Moonta Bay, Spencer Gulf, South Australia; SAMA 5♀ 2♂ (collected H.M. Hale, 13/2/1937; lat. long. not stated by Nicholls), Sellick Beach, from Cambrian Rocks; SAMA 2♀ (collected K. Sheard, April, 1939; lat. long. not stated by Nicholls), Sellick Reef, Gulf St Vincent, South Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Noodt, W. 1964. Copepoda Harpacticoidea aus dem Litoral des Roten Meeres. Kieler Meeresforschung 20: 128-154
• Lang, K. 1965. Copepoda Harpacticoidea from the Californian Pacific coast. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm Series 4 10: 1-560

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SA, Gulf St Vincent; Wells & Rao (1987: p. 104) state '[f]ollowing Lang's (1948, 1965) widely accepted reviews A. cinctus can be accepted as either a virtually cosmopolitan species (absent only in the Arctic and Antarctic) with a high degree of inter-population variability or as a species complex with, at present, indefinable boundries between the component species. The variability is extensive and affects almost all parts of the body'.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia

Oriental Region

• Andaman Islands
• Nicobar Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Recorded from algae.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jul-2012		26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED