Genus Paramoera Miers, 1875

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paramoera Miers, E.J. 1875. Descriptions of new species of crustacea collected at Kerguelen's Island by the Rev. A.E. Eaton. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 16: 73-76 [75].

  Type species:

   Paramoera australis Miers, 1875 by monotypy (two other species were placed in the genus, but tenatively, at its inception, and are therefore unavailable for type selection).
• Stebbingia Pfeffer, G. 1888. Die Krebse von Süd-Georgien nach der Ausbeute der Deutschen Station 1882–83, 2 Teil, Die Amphipoden. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 5: 77-142 [110].

  Type species:

   Stebbingia gregaria Pfeffer, 1888 by monotypy.
• Aucklandia Walker, A.O. 1908. Amphipoda from the Auckland Islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 2: 33-39, pl. 5 [35].

  Type species:

   Aucklandia enderbyi Walker, 1908 by monotypy.
• Amphoediceros Fearn-Wannan, H.J. 1968. Littoral Amphipoda of Victoria, Part I. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 81(1): 31-58 [44].

  Type species:

   Amphoediceros willisi Fearn-Wannan, 1968 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1987. Rectification of Amphoediceros willisi Fearn-Wannan (1968) genus and species removed to Paramoera Miers (1875). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 99(1): 13-18 [13]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Subantarctic Islands
  • Kerguélen Island

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, Tas. Coast
• Australian Antarctic Territory
• Macquarie Island (Aust. Terr.)
• New Zealand
  • South Island

Neotropical Region

• Chile
  • Valparaiso

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	29-Apr-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		20-Jul-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED