Species Cymadusa cavimana (Sivaprakasam, 1970)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ampithoe cavimana Sivaprakasam, T.E. 1970. Amphipods of the family Ampithoidae from the Madras Coast. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 12(1 & 2): 64-80 [65, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZSI ♂, Kilakkarai, Gulf of Manaar, India [~9.14°N 78.47°E].
  Paratype(s) ZSI ♂ (♀ allotype).
• Cymadusa jiigurru Peart, R.A. 2007. A review of Australian Cymadusa (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) with descriptions of eight new species. Zootaxa 1540: 1-53 [19, figs 15-18].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P61916 ♂ 7 mm (On Padina sp), off Casaurina Beach, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, QLD, 1 m [14°40.63'S, 145°26.71'E].
  Paratype(s) AM P61917 ♀ 7 mm; AM P61918 ♀and ♂, 4 specimens.

Generic Combinations

• Cymadusa cavimana (Sivaprakasam, 1970). —
  Appadoo, C. & Myers, A. A. 2004. Corophiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Mauritius. Records of the Australian Museum 56: 331-362 [343] (new combination)
  Hughes, L.E. & Lowry, J.K. 2009. Ampithoidae. pp. 153-219 in Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (eds). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 2260: 1-930 [174, figs 13, 14, pl. 1E] (combination cited)

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Ampithoe kergueleni (Stebbings, 1888) [misidentification].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral (0 to 30 m), among algae

General References

Hughes, L.E. & Peart, R.A. 2013. New species and new records of Ampithoidae (Peracarida: Amphipoda) from Australian Waters. Zootaxa 3719(1): 1-102 [29]

History of changes