Species Floresorchestia australis Lowry & Springthorpe, 2009
- Floresorchestia australis Lowry, J.K. & Springthorpe, R.T. 2009. The genus Floresorchestia (Amphipoda: Talitridae) in tropical Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 25: 65-70 [65, figs. 1-4].
Type data:
Holotype AM P80 ♀ (ovigerous), 9.2 mm, Evidently living on pebble beach in the supralittoral zone and on the cliff face behind the beach.
Paratype(s) NTM Cr16879 ovigerous ♀ 9.16 mm; NTM Cr13149 ♂ “b”, 9.16 mm; NTM Cr13149 ♂ “c”, 7.4 mm; NTM Cr16882 5 ♂, 4 ♀; AM P80701 1 ♂, 1 ♀;
Status unknown, NTM Crxxxxx male “a”, 8.5 mm, Evidently living on pebble beach in the supralittoral zone and on the cliff face behind the beach.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Transition (26)
Ecological Descriptors
Detritivore, marine, supralittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Supralittoral beach wrack
General References
Lowry, J.K. & Springthorpe, R.T. 2015. The tropical talitrid genus Floresorchestia (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Talitridae). Zootaxa 3935(1): 1-68 [17]
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816 | 12-Jun-2018 | MODIFIED | Dr Shane Ahyong |
05-Aug-2022 | Floresorchestia Bousfield, 1984 | 25-Mar-2015 | MODIFIED | |
05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 06-Feb-2013 | MOVED | Dr Jim Lowry (AM) |
05-Aug-2022 | 18-Dec-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 22-Nov-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 14-Jul-2010 | ADDED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 30-Jun-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
09-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |