Genus Ischyrocerus Krøyer, 1838

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ischyrocerus Krøyer, H.N. 1838. Gronlands amphipoder beskrevne af Henrik Krøyer. Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs. Skrifter Naturvidenskab math. Afd 7: 229-326, pls 1-4 [283].

  Type species:

   Ischyrocerus anguipes Krøyer, 1838 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Barnard, J.L. 1969. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 271: 1-535 [279]; Lincoln, R.J. 1979. British Marine Amphipoda: Gammaridea. London : British Museum (Natural History) 658 pp. [556].
• Wyvillea Haswell, W.A. 1879. On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(3): 319-356 pls 18-24 [336].

  Type species:

   Wyvillea longimanus Haswell, 1879 by monotypy.
• Macleayia Haswell, W.A. 1880. Preliminary report on the Australian Amphipoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 5: 30-34 [32].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lowry, J.K. in Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. [146]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Arctic-boreal, with the majority of species found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower E coast
• New Zealand

Distribution References

General References

Barnard, J.L. 1969. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 271: 1-535 [279] (included Wyvillea and Macleayia as junior synonyms of Jassa)

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

Stebbing, T.R.R. 1888. Report on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 29: i-xxiv + 1-1713, 210 pls (3 vols) [514] (noted that the description of Macleayia given by Haswell matched that of the earlier Wyvillea)

Stebbing, T.R.R. 1906. Amphipoda I. Gammaridae. Das Tierreich 21: 1-806 [648] (included Macleayia as a junior synonym of Wyvillea)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	12-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		19-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED