Species Anchylomera blossevillii Milne Edwards, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anchylomera blossevillii Milne Edwards, H. 1830. Extrait de recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des Crustacés Amphipodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 20: 353-399 pls 10-11 [394].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), Indian Ocean.
• Anchylomera hunterii Milne Edwards, H. 1830. Extrait de recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des Crustacés Amphipodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 20: 353-399 pls 10-11 [394].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), l'ile Bourbon.
• Hieraconyx abbreviatus Guérin Méneville, F.-E. 1836. Description de quelques genres nouveau de Crustacés appartenant à la famille des Hyperinés. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 6(7): 1-10 pls 17-18 [5, pl. 17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP CA2684 3 ♀ (Guérin-Méneville Coll. No. 440), between the Falkland Islands and Port Jackson, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Zeidler, W. 1997. The hyperiid amphipod specimens in the Guérin-Méneville Collection surviving in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 148: 121-146.
• Cheiropristis messanensis Natale, G. de 1850. Descrizione zoologica d'una nuova specie di Plojaria e di alcuni Crostacei del Porto de Messina conpoche considerazioni generali sulla natura delle appendicia culeiformi della piante e degli animali. 31 pp. appendix 2 pp., 2 pls [8, pl. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), Port of Messina, Mediterranean Sea.

  Secondary source:

   Stebbing, T.R.R. 1888. Report on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 29: i-xxiv + 1-1713, 210 pls (3 vols) [236].
• Anchylomera purpurea Dana, J.D. 1853. Crustacea, Part II. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 14: 689-1618 [1001, pl. 68].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), off the coast of Brazil, Atlantic Ocean [27°S 45°10'W].
• Anchylomera thyropoda Dana, J.D. 1853. Crustacea, Part II. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 14: 689-1618 [1004, pl. 68].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), off the coast of Argentina, Atlantic Ocean [39°S 54°W].
• Anchylomera antipodes Spence Bate, C. 1862. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 399 pp. 58 pls. [322, pl. 51].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), near the Antipodes [58°S 172°W].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zeidler, W. 1998. Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected from eastern and south-eastern Australian waters by the CSIRO vessel "Warreen" during the years 1938–1941. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 4: 1-143 [67]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical/temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic.

 

General References

Dakin, W.J. & Colefax, A.N. 1940. The plankton of the Australian coastal waters off New South Wales. Part I. Publications of the University of Sydney, Department of Zoology. Monograph 1: 1-215 [123]

Hurley, D.E. 1969. Amphipoda Hyperiidea. pp. 32-34, sheets 1-2 in American Geographical Society (ed.). Antarctic Map Folio Series, Folio 11. Distribution of selected groups of marine invertebrates in waters south of 35ºS latitude. New York : American Geographical Society. [pl. 19 (map 7)]

Stebbing, T.R.R. 1888. Report on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 29: i-xxiv + 1-1713, 210 pls (3 vols) [1433]

Tranter, H.A. 1977. Further studies of plankton ecosystems in the Eastern Indian Ocean. VII. Ecology of the Amphipoda. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 645-662 [647]

Zeidler, W. 1998. Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected from eastern and south-eastern Australian waters by the CSIRO vessel "Warreen" during the years 1938–1941. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 4: 1-143 [67]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong (AM)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	07-Jul-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)