Species Leucothoe furina (Savigny, 1816)
- Lycesta furina Savigny, J.C. 1816. Mémoires sur les Animaux sans vertèbres. Première partie. Description et classification des animaux invertébrés et articulés, connus sous les noms de Crustacés, d'Insectes, d'Annélides, etc. Paris : Deterville, Libraire 117 pp. pls 1-84, 1-8. [109, pl. 4 fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, Red Sea or Mediterranean Sea (as Egypt), more likely the Red Sea. - Leucothoe hornelli Walker, A.O. 1904. Report on the Amphipoda collected by Professor Herdman, at Ceylon, in 1902. Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries Supplement Report 17: 229-300 [258, pl. 3 fig. 17].
Type data:
Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, various localities on the Sri Lankan coast (as Ceylon) including: south of Karativo to Columbo; north of Bengalli; in or near Trincomalee Harbour.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Sivaprakasam, T.E. 1969. Leucothoid Amphipoda from the Madras coast. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India 9(2): 384-391 [387]
Generic Combinations
- Leucothoe furina (Savigny, 1816). —
Schellenberg, A. 1928. Report on the Amphipoda. [in Zoological Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924]. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 22(5): 633-692 [635]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Ocean.
IMCRA
Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, endocommensal, marine, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Epizoic, in ascidians.
General References
Barnard, K.H. 1931. Amphipoda. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 111-135 [120]
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. (questions the identification of the Australian record)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 06-Feb-2013 | MOVED | Dr Jim Lowry (AM) |
| 05-Aug-2022 | 22-Nov-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 16-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 27-Jul-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 09-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |