Species Limnoria multipunctata Menzies, 1957
- Limnoria (Limnoria) multipunctata 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 [170].
Type data:
Holotype ZMC CRU7428, Kai Ils, Indonesia.
Paratype(s) ZMC CRU7429 1 specimen (as allotype).
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, west Pacific Ocean, Caribbean Sea.
IMCRA
Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, subtidal, wood-borer.
Extra Ecological Information
Boring into mangrove wood, Pinus spp.
General References
Cookson, L.J. 1991. Australasian species of Limnoriidae (Crustacea: Isopoda). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 52: 137-262 (redescription, substrates, distribution)
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)
Kühne, H. von 1976. Zur geographischen Verbreitung holzzerstörender Crustaceen und Systematik der Untergattung Limnoria s. str. Menzies. Material und Organismen, Beihefte 3: 543-553 (figures and distribution)
History of changes
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