Species Laomedia healyi Yaldwyn & Wear, 1970
Pink Mangrove Lobster
- Laomedia healyi Yaldwyn, J.C. & Wear, R.G. 1970. Preliminary description of a new burrowing mud-shrimp from eastern Australia (Crustacea, Macrura Reptantia, Laomediidae). The Australian Zoologist 15: 384-385, 1 fig. [384 fig. 1].
Type data:
Holotype AM P15820 ♀, Careel Bay, Pittwater, NSW.
Paratype(s) RMNH D29867 ♀, Hawkesbury River near Brooklyn, NSW; RMNH D29868 ♂, Sydney, Parramatta River, Hen and Chicken Bay, NSW; AM P4746 1♀; AM P10725 5♂ 2♀; AM P11578 1♀; AM P12944 1♀; AM P13506 1♀; AM P15057 1♂; AM P15058 1♀; AM P15819 1♂; AM P18361 1♀.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Burrower, littoral, mangrove.
General References
Davie, P. 1998. Wild Guide to Moreton Bay. Wildlife and habitats of a beautiful Australian coast – Noosa to the Tweed. Brisbane : Queensland Museum xxiv 408 pp. [43] (colour photograph)
Yaldwyn, J.C. & Wear, R.G. 1972. The eastern Australian burrowing mud-shrimp, Laomedia healyi (Crustacea, Macrura, Reptantia, Laomediidae) with notes on larvae of the genus Laomedia. The Australian Zoologist 17: 126-141 pls 6-7 (full description)
History of changes
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