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.

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.

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

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