Species Limnoria indica Becker & Kampf, 1958

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Species Limnoria indica Becker & Kampf, 1958

Limnoria indica Becker, G. & Kampf, W.-D. 1958. Funde der holzzer störenden Isopoden gattung Limnoria an der Festlandküste Indiens und Neubeschreibung von Limnoria indica. Angewandte Zoologie 45: 1-9 [3].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BPBM, Mandapam and Madras, India.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific Ocean, India, Hong Kong, Philippines, Belize, Mexico.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, subtidal, wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Boring into mangrove roots, treated and untreated timbers.

General References

Cookson, L.J. 1987. The occurrence of Limnoria indica Becker and Kampf (Isopoda) on the eastern coast of Australia. Crustaceana 52: 85-89 (Australian record, distribution, ecology, figures)

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

Kensley, B. & Schotte, M. 1987. New records of isopod crustaceans from the Caribbean, the Florida Keys, and the Bahamas. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100: 216-247 (figures)

Kensley, B. & Schotte, M. 1989. Guide to the Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Caribbean. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press 308 pp. (record from Caribbean)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
05-Aug-2022	04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
	29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED

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