Species Brolgus tattersalli (J.L. Barnard, 1958)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paraphoxus tattersalli Barnard, J.L. 1958. Revisionary notes on the Phoxocephalidae (Amphipoda), with a key to the genera. Pacific Science 12: 146-151 [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀, Sandy Is., Wallabi Group, Houtman Abrolhos, WA (as Sandy Is., Wallaby Group, Abrolhos Ils).

Generic Combinations

• Brolgus tattersalli (J.L. Barnard, 1958). —
  Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1978. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part III: The Phoxocephalidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 245: 1-551 [98, figs. 33-36]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom, sea grass.

General References

Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1978. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part III: The Phoxocephalidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 245: 1-551

Tattersall, W.M. 1922. Amphipoda and Isopoda. The Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions to the Abrolhos Islands (Indian Ocean). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 35: 1-19 pls 1-3 (as Parharpinia villosa (Haswell, 1879))

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