Species Bemlos australis (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Microdeuteropus australis Haswell, W.A. 1879. On Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 245-279 pls 7-12 [271, pl. 11 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (lost), Port Jackson, NSW [~33°52'S, 151°13'E].

Generic Combinations

• Bemlos australis (Haswell, 1879). —
  Myers, A.A. 1988. A cladistic and biogeographic analysis of the Aorinae subfamily nov. Crustaceana Suppl. 13: 167-192 [188]
• Lemboides australis (Haswell, 1879). —
  Stebbing, T.R.R. 1899. Revision of Amphipoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 3: 350 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral (0 to 30 m), 17 m. Appears to be eurytopic, occurring among Posidonia, algae, in coral rubble, fine sands and on a breakwater.

General References

Myers, A.A. 1988. The genera Archaeobemlos n.gen., Bemlos Shoemaker, Protolembos Myers and Globosolembos Myers (Amphipoda, Aoridae, Aorinae) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 40: 265-332

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