Genus Brachyscelus Spence Bate, 1861

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brachyscelus Spence Bate, C. 1861. On the morphology of some Amphipoda of the division Hyperina. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 8(43): 1-16 pls 1-2 [7].

  Type species:

   Brachyscelus crusculum Bate, 1861 by monotypy.
• Thamyris 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. [335].

  Type species:

   Thamyris antipodes Bate, 1862 by monotypy.
• Schnehagenia Claus, C. 1871. Untersuchungen über den Bau der Verwandtschaft der Hyperiden. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 1871: 149-157 [157].

  Type species:

   Schnehagenia rapax Claus, 1871 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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) [1543]
• Vinogradov, M.E., Volkov, A.F. & Semenova, T.N. 1982. Amphipoda — Hyperiidea of the World Ocean. Nauka Leningrad U.S.S.R. Opred. po Faune S.S.S.R 132: 1-491 [in Russian] [395]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in tropical and temperate oceans.

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 Eastern Shelf Transition (39), 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

Palaearctic Region

• Italy

General References

Zeidler, W. 2021. A review of the hyperiidean amphipod family Brachyscelidae Stephensen, 1923 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Zootaxa 5026: 405-439

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	10-May-2022	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
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
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED