Species Elthusa raynaudii (Milne Edwards, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Livoneca raynaudii Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 3 220 acompagnée de planches. [262].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP 255 ♀, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed in Indian and Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Parasitic on clupeid, nototheniid, morid and gempylid fishes.

 

General References

Bruce, N.L. 1990. The genera Catoessa, Elthusa, Enispa, Ichthyoxenus, Idusa, Livoneca and Norileca n. gen. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes, with descriptions of eastern Australian species. Records of the Australian Museum 42: 247-300 (distribution, hosts)

Trilles, J.-P. 1976. Les Cymothoidae (Isopoda, Flabellifera) des collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris. IV. Les Lironecinae Schioedte et Meinert, 1884. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3, Zool. 392(272): 773-779 (distribution, hosts)

 

History of changes

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05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
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