Species Limnoria agrostisa Cookson, 1991

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limnoria agrostisa Cookson, L.J. 1991. Australasian species of Limnoriidae (Crustacea: Isopoda). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 52: 137-262 [166] [mispelled as Limnoria agrostica in Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp.].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV J14972 juv., 300 m offshore near Cliff Head, 30 km S of Dongara, WA [29°32´S 114°59´E].
  Paratype(s) NMV J14973 ♂ specimens.

  Secondary source:

   Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast
  • South Australia
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Algal-borer, boring in Posidonia sp.

 

General References

Brearley, A., Kendrick, G.A. & Walker, D.I. 2008. How does burrowing by the isopod Limnoria agrostisa (Crustacea: Limnoriidae) affect the leaf canopy of the southern Australian seagrass Amphibolis griffithii? Marine Biology 156: 65-77 (notes on distribution)

 

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