Genus Eurythenes Smith, 1882

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eurytenes Lilljeborg, W. 1865. On the Lysianassa magellanica H. Milne Edwards and on the Crustacea of the suborder Amphipoda and subfamily Lysianassina found on the coast of Sweden and Norway. Uppsala : Royal Academic Press 38 pp. 5 pls. [11] [junior homonym of Eurytenes Foerster, 1862].

  Type species:

   Lysianassa magellanica Milne Edwards, 1848 (=Gammarus gryllus Lichtenstein, 1822) by original designation.
• Eurythenes Smith, S.I. 1882. in Scudder, S.H. Nomenclator zoologicus. An Alphabetical list of all generic Names that have been employed by Naturalists for recent and fossil Animals from the earliest times to the Close of the year 1879. I. Supplemental List. II. Universal Index. Washington : Government Printing Office. [135] [nom. nov. for Eurytenes Lilljeborg, 1865].

  Type species:

   Gammarus gryllus Lichtenstein, 1822 by monotypy.
• Euryporeia Sars, G.O. 1891. An Account of the Crustacea of Norway, with Short Descriptions and Figures of all the Species. Vol. 1 Amphipoda. Pts 4–9. Christiania & Copenhagen : Alb. Cammermeyer pp. 69-212, pls 25-72. [85] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Eurytenes Lilljeborg, 1865].
• Katius Chevreux, E. 1905. Description d'un amphipode (Katius obesus nov. gen. et sp.), suivie d'une liste des amphipodes de la tribu des Gammarina ramenés par le filet à grande ouverture pendant la dernière campagne de la Princesse-Alice en 1904. Bulletin du Musée Océanographique de Monaco 35: 1-7 [1].

  Type species:

   Katius obesus Chevreux, 1905 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Barnard, J.L. & Karaman, G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 13: 1-866 [485]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, S oceanic, SE oceanic
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast
  • Queensland: NE coast
  • South Australia: S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
• Tonga

Nearctic Region

• Greenland

Neotropical Region

• Bahamas

Oriental Region

• Indonesia

Distribution References

General References

D'Acoz, C.D. & Havermans, C. 2015. Contribution to the systematics of the genus Eurythenes S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Eurytheneidae). Zootaxa 3971(1): 1-80

 

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		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED