Species Lomis hirta (Lamarck, 1818)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Porcellana hirta Lamarck, J.B.P.A. 1818. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une Introduction offrant la Détermination des caractères essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturelles, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. Vol. 5. 612 pp. [229].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Australia.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

From Bunbury, WA, south and east to VIC and TAS.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Low intertidal, rock reef, shallow subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under rocks, probably uses long antennae for filter-feeding.

 

General References

Jones, D.S. & Morgan, G.J. 1994. A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Australian Waters. Chatswood, NSW : Reed 216 pp. [127] (colour photograph)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Apr-2012		24-Apr-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)