Species Elasmopus pectenicrus (Spence Bate, 1862)
- Maera pectenicrus Spence Bate, C. 1862. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 399 pp. 58 pls. [192, pl. XXXIV. fig. 8].
Type data:
Status unknown, New Guinea. - Elasmopus serrula Walker, A.O. 1904. Report on the Amphipoda collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries Supplement Report 17: 229-300 [277, pl. 8, fig. 37].
Generic Combinations
- Elasmopus pectenicrus (Spence Bate, 1862). —
Barnard, K.H. 1916. Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 5. The Amphipoda. Annals of the South African Museum 15(3): 105-302 pls 26-28 [197, Pl. XXVIII, fig. 33]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Australia. Queensland: Thursday Island, Torres Strait (Lowry & Hughes, 2009); Lizard Island (Lowry & Hughes, 2009). Northern territory: Groote Eylandt; Raffles Bay, Cobourg Peninsula (Lowry & Hughes, 2009). Brazil. Rio de Janeiro (Oliveira, 1951). Egypt. Suez (Walker 1909); Port Said (Schellenberg 1928). India. Madras (Nayar 1959; Sivaprakasam 1968); Cape Comorin, Tuticorin, Kilakkarai, Ramswaram, Pamban, Calimere, Kovelong, Madras Harbour, Visakhapatnam Harbour (Sivaprakasam 1968); Gulf of Manaar (Sivaprakasam 1969). Indonesia. Sangeang Island, Flores Sea (Pirlot 1936). Israel. (Ruffo 1959). ? Madagascar. (Ledoyer 1983). Mauritius. (Appadoo & Myers 2003). Papua New Guinea. (Bate 1862); Ralum, Bismarck Archipelago (Schellenberg 1938). South Africa. Buffels Bay (False Bay) and Durban (K.H. Barnard 1916); Still Bay and East London (K.H. Barnard 1940). Sri Lanka. Galle (Walker 1904). Tanzania. Zanzibar (Walker 1909). USA. Puerto Rico (Shoemaker, 1935); Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (J.L. Barnard, 1955, 1970); South Florida, Florida Keys and the Dry Tortugas (LeCroy 2000).
IMCRA
Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Other Regions
Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater
Distribution References
- Appadoo, C. & Myers, A.A. 2003. The genus Elasmopus (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Melitidae) from Mauritius (Indian Ocean) with description of five new species. Records of the Australian Museum 55(1): 61-84
- Barnard, J.L. 1955. Gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea) in the collections of Bishop Museums. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 215: 1-46
- Barnard, J.L. 1970. Sublittoral Gammaridea (Amphipoda) of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 34: 1-278
- Barnard, K.H. 1916. Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 5. The Amphipoda. Annals of the South African Museum 15(3): 105-302 pls 26-28
- Barnard, K. H. 1940. Contributions to the crustacean fauna of South Africa. 12. Further additions to the Tanaidacea, Isopoda, and Amphipoda, together with keys for the identification of the hitherto recorded marine and fresh-water species. Annals of the South African Museum 32: 381-543
- LeCroy, S. 2000. An illustrated identification guide to the nearshore marine and estuarine gammaridean Amphipoda of Florida. 1 Families Gammaridae, Hadziidae, Isaeidae, Melitidae and Oedicerotidae. Tallahassee, Florida : Florida Department of Environmental Protection Division of Resources Assessment and Management Bureau Laboratory 195 pp.
- Ledoyer, M. 1983. Les Oedicerotidae (Crustacea Amphipoda) de la Mer Méditerranée. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 9: 45-84
- Lowry, J.K. & Hughes, L.E. 2009. Maeridae, the Elasmopus group. pp. 643-702 in Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (eds). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 2260: 1-930
- Nayar, K. N. 1959. The Amphipoda of the Madras coast. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History 6(3): 1-59
- Oliveira, L. P. H. d. 1951. The genus Elasmopus on the coast of Brazil, with description of Elasmopus besnardi n.sp., and E. fusimanus n.sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Boletim do Instituto Paulista de Oceanografia 2: 3-36
- Pirlot, J.M. 1936. Les amphipodes de l'expédition du Siboga. Deuxième partie: les amphipodes gammarides, II: Les amphipodes de la mer profonde. 3: Addendum et partie generale. III: Les amphipodes littoraux. I: Lysianassidae, Ampeliscidae, Leucothoidae, Stenothoidae, Phliantidae, Colomastigidae, Ochlesidae, Liljeborgiidae, Oedicerotidae, Synopiidae, Eusiridae, Gammaridae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 33(E): 237-328
- Ruffo, S. 1959. Contributions to the knowledge of the Red Sea No. 13. Contributo alla conoscenze degli anfipodi del Mar Rosso (1) (Materiali raccolti a Ghardaqa e nel Golfo di Aqaba). Bulletin of the Sea Fisheries Research Station, Israel 20: 1-26
- Schellenberg, A. 1928. Report on the Amphipoda. [in Zoological Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924]. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 22(5): 633-692
- Schellenberg, A. 1938. Litorale Amphipoden des tropischen Pazifiks. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 3 16(6): 1-105
- Shoemaker, C. R. 1935. The amphipods of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands (New York Academy of Sciences) 15: 229-253
- Sivaprakasam, T.E. 1968. Amphipods of the Genera Maera Leach and Elasmopus Costa from the East Coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 10(1): 34-51
- Sivaprakasam, T.E. 1969. Amphipods of the genera Maera Leach and Elasmopus Costa from the east coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 1968 10(1): 34-51
- Spence Bate, C. 1862. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 399 pp. 58 pls.
- Walker, A.O. 1904. Report on the Amphipoda collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries Supplement Report 17: 229-300
- Walker, A. O. 1909. Amphipoda Gammaridea from the Indian Ocean, British East Africa, and the Red Sea. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 12(4): 323-44, pls 42-43
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Littoral, 0-60 m.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 | 01-Aug-2018 | MODIFIED | Dr Shane Ahyong |
| 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 | ||
| 27-Apr-2010 | (import) |