Species Cyclaspis cretata Hale, 1944

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyclaspis cretata Hale, H.M. 1944. Australian Cumacea. No. 7 The genus Cyclaspis. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8: 63-142 [91, figs 19, 20].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C2418 ♂, Cronulla, NSW.
  Paratype(s) SAMA C2366, Spencer Gulf, SA; SAMA C2368; SAMA C2370; SAMA C2371.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

From sand and weed, attracted to underwater light, surface to 25 m depth.

General References

Hale, H.M. 1948. Australian Cumacea. No. 14 Further notes on the genus Cyclaspis. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9: 1-42 [4]

Kurian, C.V. 1956. Notes on Cumacea (Sympoda) in the Zoological Survey of India. Records of the Indian Museum 52: 275-311 [280] (taxonomy)

Tafe, D.J. & Greenwood, J.G. 1996. The Bodotriidae (Crustacea: Cumacea) of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(2): 391-482 [411]

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