Species Carpentaria limicola (Haswell, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Talorchestia limicola Haswell, W.A. 1880. On some new amphipods from Australia and Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5(1): 97-105 pls 5-7 [98, pl. 5, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM P80168 ♂ 10.7 mm, mangroves, Mermaid Cove, Lizard Island, QLD [14°38.91’S 145°27.26’E].

  Secondary source:

   Lowry, J.K., Springthorpe, R.T. & Myers, A.A. 2020. Carpentaria gen. nov., a new talitrid genus from tropical Australia (Amphipoda,Senticaudata, Talitroidea, Protorchestiidae). Zootaxa 4834(3): 425-433 [Date published 20/08/2020] (accessed 12/05/21).

Generic Combinations

• Chelorchestia limicola (Haswell, 1880). —
  Serejo, C.S. 2009. Talitridae pp. 892-903 in Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (eds). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 2260: 1-930 [893, figs 1, 2, pl. 6E, F]
• Floresorchestia limicola (Haswell, 1880). —
  Lowry, J.K. & Springthorpe, R.T. 2015. Coastal Talitridae (Amphipoda: Talitroidea) from north-western Australia to Darwin with a revision of the genus Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010. Zootaxa 3985(2): 151–202 [179]
• Carpentaria limicola (Haswell, 1880). —
  Lowry, J.K., Springthorpe, R.T. & Myers, A.A. 2020. Carpentaria gen. nov., a new talitrid genus from tropical Australia (Amphipoda,Senticaudata, Talitroidea, Protorchestiidae). Zootaxa 4834(3): 425-433 [Date published 20/08/2020] (accessed 12/05/21)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Supralittoral, mangrove roots from mangroves behind beach or under the leaf litter from around crab holes at back of beach.

History of changes