Genus Hemiporcellio Collinge, 1915

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• Hemiporcellio Collinge, W.E. 1915. Contributions to a knowledge of the terrestrial Isopoda of India. Part 1. On a collection from the Madras Province and Southern India. Records of the Indian Museum 11: 143-151 [145].

  Type species:

   Hemiporcellio carinatus Collinge, 1915 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin

General References

Ferrara, F. & Argano, R. 1989. Terrestrial isopods from Sri Lanka, V: Trachelipidae and Porcellionidae (Crustacea). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 96: 219-229 [224] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement synonymised Hemiporcellio with Agnara Budde-Lund, 1908 but H. strzelecki is likely to be a native Australian species rather than in the introduced family Porcellionidae. It is probably a member of Trachelipodidae, see <410005>)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED