Species Aristaeomorpha foliacea (Risso, 1827)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Penaeus foliacea Risso, A. 1827 [1826]. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes. Paris : F.-G. Levrault Vol. 5 viii, 402 pp., 10 pls. [Date published November 1827] [69 pl. 2 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Mediterranean Sea.
• Aristeus rostridentatus Spence Bate, C. 1881. On the Penaeidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 8: 169-196 pls 11-12 [189].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, near Fiji;
  Status unknown.
• Aristaeomorpha giglioliana Wood-Mason, J. 1892. Illustrations of the Zoology of the Royal Indian Marine Surveying Steamer "Investigator". Crustacea, Pt 1, pls 1–5. [pl. 2 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) IM, unknown (presumably from Indian waters).
• Aristaeomorpha mediterranea Adensamer, T. 1898. Decapoden gesammelt auf S.M. Schiff "Pola" in den Jahren 1890–1894. Berichte der Commission für Erforschung des östlichen Mittelmeeres. XXII. Zoologische Ergebnisse. XI. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 65: 597-628 1 fig. [627].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMV (probable depository institution), Mediterranean Sea.
• Aristeus japonicus Yokoya, Y. 1933. On the distribution of decapod crustaceans inhabiting the continental shelf around Japan, chiefly based upon the materials collected by S.S. Sôyô-Maru, during the years 1923–1930. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Imperial University of Tokyo 12(1): 1-226 text-figs 1-71 tables 1-4 [3 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) 2♂ (probably lost), E of Owase, Mie-ken, Japan.
• Penaeus meridionalis Hope, F.W. 1851. Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di molti altri de Mediterraneo per Fr. Gugl. Hope. Napoli : Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini num. 10, 48 pp., 2 figs. [19] [nomen nudum].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Crosnier, A. 1978. Crustacés Décapodes Pénéides Aristeidae (Benthesicyminae, Aristeinae, Solenocerinae). Faune de Madagascar 46: 1-197 [54]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indo-west central Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Transition (3), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, continental shelf, continental slope, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Depths of 61–2000 m, in Australia typically from 250–700 m, on mud to muddy sand.

 

General References

Dall, W. 2001. Australian species of Aristeidae and Benthesicymidae (Penaeoidea: Decapoda). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(2): 409-441 [412 fig. 2]

Kensley, B., Tranter, H.A. & Griffin, D.J.G. 1987. Deepwater Decapod Crustacea from Eastern Australia (Penaeidae and Caridea). Records of the Australian Museum 39: 263-331 [279]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Dec-2019	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	31-Jul-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
24-Apr-2012		20-Oct-2014	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)