Species Limnoria rugosissima Menzies, 1957

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limnoria (Phycolimnoria) rugosissima Menzies, R.J. 1957. The marine borer family Limnoriidae (Crustacea, Isopoda). Part I: Northern and Central America: systematics, distribution, and ecology. Part II: Additions to the systematics. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 7: 101-200 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype CMNZ B46 (part) Chilton Coll., Port Jackson, NSW.
  Paratype(s) CMNZ B46 (part) Chilton Coll. (as allotype); BMNH 1986.997.2.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, The Snares.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Algal-borer, boring into species of Ecklonia and Cystophora, among coralline algae.

 

General References

Cookson, L.J. 1991. Australasian species of Limnoriidae (Crustacea: Isopoda). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 52: 137-262 (redescription, substrates)

 

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