Species Cerapus alquirta (Barnard & Drummond, 1981)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Baracuma alquirta Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1981. Three corophioids (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Western Port, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 93: 31-41 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV J1265 ♂ 3.92 mm (holotype not NMV J1256 as published), Western Port, VIC, fine gravel and sand with mud, 12.8 m.
  Paratype(s) NMV J1266 ♀ "A" 3.56 mm; NMV J1267 ♀ "f" 3.40 mm; NMV J1287 2 specimens.

Generic Combinations

• Cerapus alquirta (Barnard & Drummond, 1981). —
  Lowry, J.K. & Berents, P.B. 1996. The Ericthonius group, a new perspective on an old problem (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophoidea). Records of the Australian Museum 48: 75-109 [85]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom, sand, gravely sand, muddy sand, coarse sand and shell, coarse sand and mud, 5-18 m depth

History of changes