Species Aora mortoni (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Microdeuteropus mortoni Haswell, W.A. 1879. On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(3): 319-356 pls 18-24 [339, pl. 22 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3498 1 specimen, Clark Island, Port Jackson, NSW
  Comment: Myers, A.A. & Moore, P.G. 1983. The New Zealand and south-east Australian species of Aora Krøyer (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 167–180 [171] regard this specimen as the holotype. There is no evidence to support this assumption.

  Type locality references:

  Myers, A.A. & Moore, P.G. 1983. The New Zealand and south-east Australian species of Aora Krøyer (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 167-180.
• Microdeuteropus tenuipes Haswell, W.A. 1879. On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(3): 319-356 pls 18-24 [339, pl. 22 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G5389 5 specimens, Clark Island, Port Jackson, NSW; AM P11836 1 specimen, Port Jackson, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Aora mortoni (Haswell, 1879). —
  Myers, A.A. & Moore, P.G. 1983. The New Zealand and south-east Australian species of Aora Krøyer (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 167-180 [171, figs. 1, 7, 8, 13]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Detritivore, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Algae.

History of changes