Genus Cubaris Brandt, 1833

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• Cubaris Brandt, J.F. 1833. Conspectus Monographiae Crustaceorum Oniscodorum Latreilli. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 6: 171-193 [189].

  Type species:

   Cubaris murina Brandt, 1833 by subsequent designation, see Budde-Lund, G. 1909. Land-Isopoden. pp. 53-70 in Schultze, L. Zoologische und Anthropologische Ergebnisse einen Forschungreise in westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Band 2. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 14 [54]; International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1996. Opinion 1848. Cubaris murina Brandt, 1833 (Crustacea, Isopoda): generic and specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53: 208-209 [208] (confirms type species selection).

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ARMADILLIDAE: Cubaris ambitiosa (Budde-Lund, 1885) — Green, A.J.A. in Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Neotropical, Afrotropical (southern Africa), Oriental and Australian Regions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Distribution References

General References

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1996. Opinion 1848. Cubaris murina Brandt, 1833 (Crustacea, Isopoda): generic and specific names conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 53: 208-209 [208] (places Cubaris Brandt, 1833 on Official List of Generic Names in Zoology and suppresses Cubaris Billberg, 1820 and all uses of the name prior to Brandt, 1833)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	PERACARIDA Calman, 1904	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Lauren Timms (NMV) Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV)
05-Aug-2022	ISOPODA Latreille, 1817	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED