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Species Brachyscelus crusculum Spence Bate, 1861

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Tropical and temperate, circumglobal, common and widely distributed.


Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic.

 

General References

Dakin, W.J. & Colefax, A.N. 1940. The plankton of the Australian coastal waters off New South Wales. Part I. Publications of the University of Sydney, Department of Zoology. Monograph 1: 1-215 [123, fig.. 212]

Hurley, D.E. 1969. Amphipoda Hyperiidea. pp. 32-34, sheets 1-2 in American Geographical Society (ed.). Antarctic Map Folio Series, Folio 11. Distribution of selected groups of marine invertebrates in waters south of 35ºS latitude. New York : American Geographical Society. [pl. 19 (map 8)]

Tranter, H.A. 1977. Further studies of plankton ecosystems in the Eastern Indian Ocean. VII. Ecology of the Amphipoda. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 645-662 [650]

Zeidler, W. 1978. Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Queensland waters. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 59: 1-93 [28, figs 28-29]

Zeidler, W. 1984. Distribution and abundance of some Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in northern Queensland waters. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 35: 285-305 [295, 300]

Zeidler, W. 1998. Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected from eastern and south-eastern Australian waters by the CSIRO vessel "Warreen" during the years 1938–1941. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 4: 1-143 [96]

Zeidler, W. 2021. A review of the hyperiidean amphipod family Brachyscelidae Stephensen, 1923 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Zootaxa 5026: 405-439 [409] (diagnosis)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022 AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 10-May-2022 MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022 BRACHYSCELIDAE Stephensen, 1923 24-Feb-2022 MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022 BRACHYSCELIDAE Stephensen, 1923 24-Feb-2022 MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022 AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 24-Sep-2021 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