Species Limnoria unicornis Menzies, 1957

Museums

Regional Maps

• Limnoria (Limnoria) unicornis 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 [173].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM S5747, Ponape, Caroline Ils.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea, Caroline Ils, Society Ils, Caribbean Sea, Andaman Ils.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: NE coast, NW coast
  • Queensland
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, wood-borer.

Extra Ecological Information

Boring into mangrove wood and treated timbers.

 

General References

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED