Species Limnoporeia woorake J.L. Barnard & Drummond, 1978

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limnoporeia woorake Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1978. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part III: The Phoxocephalidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 245: 1-551 [501, figs 255-257].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV J620 ♀, Western Port, VIC [38°21'S 145°14'E].
  Paratype(s) NMV J621–625 5 specimens; whereabouts unknown 5 specimens (lost).

  Type locality references:

  Poore, G.C.B. 1986. Marine benthic invertebrate collections from Victorian bays and estuaries. Marine Science Laboratories, Queenscliff, Victoria, Technical Report 58: 1-28.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom, nocturnal swimming reproductive males.

 

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
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED