Genus Elasmopus Costa, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• 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

• Barnard, J.L. & Barnard, C.M. 1983. Freshwater Amphipoda of the World. I. Evolutionary Patterns. II. Handbook and Bibliography. Virginia : Hayfield Associates 830 pp. [626]

 

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.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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)
05-Aug-2022	PERACARIDA Calman, 1904	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Lauren Timms (NMV) Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong (AM)
05-Aug-2022	MAERIDAE Krapp-Schickel, 2008	13-Dec-2024	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		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		05-Dec-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED