Species Limnoria tripunctata Menzies, 1951

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Species Limnoria tripunctata Menzies, 1951

Limnoria tripunctata Menzies, R.J. 1951. A new species of Limnoria (Crustacea, Isopoda) from southern California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 50: 86-88 [86].
Type data:
Holotype USNM 91754, Pacific Beach, San Diego County, Ca., USA.
Paratype(s) USNM 91755–56, 2286 (as allotype and paratypes); LACM 48-64.1 2♂ 2♀ (AHF type no. 484 missing from collection July 1987, see Wetzer, Kuck, Baéz, Brusca & Jurkevics (1991)); BMNH 1951.4.20.6–9 ♂ ♀; RMNH.
Secondary source:
Wetzer, R., Kuck, H.G., Baéz, R.P., Brusca, R.C. & Jurkevics, L.M. 1991. Catalogue of the isopoda Crustacea type collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Technical Report 3: 1-59.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Numerous temperate and tropical locations including, New Guinea, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, Ghana, U.K., France, U.S.A. and Argentina.

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 Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), 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: Bass Strait, Central W coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, NE coast, NW coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
- New South Wales
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Victoria
- Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal, wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Boring into treated and non-treated timbers.

General References

Bastida, R. & Torti, M.R. 1972. Organismos perforantes de las costas Argentinas. II. La presencia de Limnoria (Limnoria) tripunctata Menzies, 1951 (Isopoda, Limnoriidae) en el puerto de Mar del Plata. Physis (Buenos Aires) 31: 143-153 (descriptions and figures)

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

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