Species Glossomaera octodens (Sivaprakasam, 1968)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Maera octodens 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 [36, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Appa Tivu, east coast of India [~9°9'36''N 78°49'48''E].

Generic Combinations

• Glossomaera octodens (Sivaprakasam, 1968). —
  Krapp-Schickel, T. 2009. Maeridae, the Ceradocus group. pp. 598-642 in Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (eds). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 2260: 1-930 [614, figs. 12, 13]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral rubble.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral (0 to 30 m), rubble patches between coral bommies.

History of changes