Species Limnoria pfefferi Stebbing, 1904
- Limnoria pfefferi Stebbing, T.R.R. 1904. Marine crustaceans. XII. Isopoda, with the description of a new genus. (pp. 699-721, pls. XLIX-LIII) in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part III) pp. 699–720, pls. XLIX-LXVI. [714].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1928.12.1.1275-80 ♂ 2♀, Minikoi Atoll, Indian Ocean.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Papua New Guinea, Indian Ocean, Philippines, Caribbean Sea.
IMCRA
Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, subtidal, wood-borer.
General References
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 (Caribbean records)
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 (figures)
History of changes
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