Species Limnoria platycauda Menzies, 1957
- Limnoria (Limnoria) platycauda 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 [139].
Type data:
Holotype USNM 59975, Mouth of Curacao Harbor, Curacao (as Dutch West Indies).
Paratype(s) USNM 59975.
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Carribbean, Andaman Ils, Aldabra Atoll, Japan, Admiralty Ils.
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
Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
- Queensland
Ecological Descriptors
Marine, subtidal, wood-borer.
Extra Ecological Information
Boring into mangrove wood, Pinus spp., Syncarpia spp., Melaleuca spp., Casuarina spp.
General References
Cookson, L.J. 1991. Australasian species of Limnoriidae (Crustacea: Isopoda). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 52: 137-262 (redescription, distribution, substrates)
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 05-Aug-2022 | 04-May-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 29-Jun-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |