Species Bulbamphiascus imus (Brady, 1872)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Canthocamptus imus Brady, G.S. 1872. Contributions to the study of the Entomostraca. No. VII. A list of the non-parasitic marine Copepoda of the north-east coast of England. Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham 4: 423-445 [436].
• Stenhelia reflexa Scott, T. 1895. Additions to the fauna of the Firth of Forth. Part VII. 13th Annual Report of the Fishery Board for Scotland 13(3): 165-173 [166].
• Stenhelia longirostris Norman, A.M. & Scott, T. 1905. Crustacea Copepoda new to science from Devon and Cornwall. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 15: 284-300 [288].
• Amphiascus inermis Sewell, R.B.S. 1940. Copepoda, Harpacticoida. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 8: 1-382 [277].
• Bulbamphiascus angustifolius Klie, W. 1950. Harpacticoida (Cop.) aus dem Bereich von Helgoland und der Kieler Bucht. (Fortsetzung). Kieler Meeresforschung 7(1): 76-128 [81].
• Amphisacus normani Sars, G.O. 1911. Copepoda Harpacticoida. Parts XXXI & XXXII. Canthocamptidae (concluded), Laophontidae (part). Supplement (continued). pp. 369-396 in Sars, G.O. (ed.). An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with short descriptions and figures of all species. Bergen : Bergen Museum Vol. 5. [383].

  Secondary source:

   Lang, K. 1948. Monographie der Harpacticiden. Lund, Sweden : Håkan Ohlssons Boktrycheri 1682 pp. [695].
• Amphiascus sahelensis Monard, A. 1936. Note preliminaire sur la faune des Harpacticoides marins d'Alger. Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche Castiglione 1935(1): 45-85 [56].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wells, J.B.J. & Rao, G.C. 1987. Littoral Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 19: 1-385 [108] (reference for Amphiascus inermis)

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan; SA, Coobowie Lake on Yorke Peninisula.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mozambique

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia
  • Western Australia
• New Zealand

Nearctic Region

• United States of America
  • North Carolina
  • Washington

Neotropical Region

• Argentina
• Bermuda
• Virgin Islands (USA)

Oriental Region

• Nicobar Islands

Palaearctic Region

• Norway
• United Kingdom

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Found in seagrasses such as Ruppia sp. and Heterozostera tasmanica.

 

General References

Wells, J.B.J. & Rao, G.C. 1987. Littoral Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 19: 1-385

 

History of changes

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