Species Elasmopus crassimanus (Miers, 1884)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Moera crassimana Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Collections from Melanesia. Part I. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Alert" 1881–2. London : British Museum pp. 178-322 pls 18-34. [316].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (possibly in BMNH), Port Jackson, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Elasmopus crassimanus (Miers, 1884). —
  Stebbing, T.R.R. 1899. Amphipoda from the Copenhagen Museum and other sources. — Part II. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd series 7(8): 395-432, pls 30-35 [426]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, marine, sublittoral.

 

General References

Barnard, J.L. 1958. Index to the families, genera and species of the gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea). Occasional Papers of the Allan Hancock Foundation 19: 1-145 (considered Moera crassimana to be a dubious species)

Stebbing, T.R.R. 1899. Amphipoda from the Copenhagen Museum and other sources. — Part II. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd series 7(8): 395-432, pls 30-35

Stebbing, T.R.R. 1910. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Crustacea Part V. Amphipoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(12): 567-658, pls 47-60 (considered Moera crassimana as obscure)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		06-Feb-2013	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		05-Dec-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		30-Sep-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		17-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED