Genus Elasmopus Costa, 1853
- Elasmopus Costa, A. 1853. Relazione sulla memoria del Dottor Achille Costa, di ricerche su' crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli. Rendiconti. Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche 2: 167-178 [170].
Type species:
Elasmopus rapax Costa, 1853 by monotypy. - Neogammaropsis Stout, V.R. 1913. Studies in Laguna Amphipoda. II. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 34: 633-659 [645].
Type species:
Neogammaropsis antennatus Stout, 1913 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
Excluded Taxa
- Misidentifications
MELITIDAE: Elasmopus pseudaffinis Schellenberg, 1938 — Berents, P.B. 1983. The Melitidae of Lizard Island and adjacent reefs, The Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 101-143 (recorded this species); Myers, A.A. 1986. Amphipoda from the South Pacific: Tonga. Records of the Australian Museum 38: 271-289 (excluded this species; Australian records now known to be Elasmopus alalo Myers, 1986)
MELITIDAE: Elasmopus rapax Costa, 1853 — Chilton, C. 1917. Notes on the distribution of the amphipods, Elasmopus rapax, A. Costa, and Maera inaequipes (A. Costa). Journal of Zoological Research 2(1): 17-19 (recorded this species); Lowry, J.K. in Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. (excluded this species)
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IMCRA
Southeast Transition (11), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6)
Other Regions
Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- Madagascar
- Mauritius
- South Africa
- Tanzania
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
- Lord Howe Island
- New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Territory: N coast
- Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
- South Australia: S Gulfs coast
- Western Australia: Central W coast, Lower W coast, NW coast
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Hawaii
- Kiribati
- New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
- Tonga
Nearctic Region
- United States of America
- Florida
Neotropical Region
- Brazil
- Puerto Rico
- Venezuela
Oriental Region
- China (People's Republic)
- India
- Indonesia
- Sri Lanka
Palaearctic Region
- Algeria
- Egypt
- France
- Greece
- Libya
- Monaco
- Tunisia
- Turkey
Distribution References
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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05-Aug-2022 | PERACARIDA Calman, 1904 | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | Lauren Timms (NMV) Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV) |
05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 | 17-May-2022 | MODIFIED | |
05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | |
05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | Dr Shane Ahyong |
05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | Dr Shane Ahyong (AM) |
05-Aug-2022 | MAERIDAE Krapp-Schickel, 2008 | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | Lyn Randall |
05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 06-Feb-2013 | MOVED | Dr Jim Lowry (AM) |
05-Aug-2022 | 06-Feb-2013 | MOVED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 05-Dec-2012 | MOVED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED | ||
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05-Aug-2022 | MODIFIED |