Genus Maeracoota Myers, 1997

Museums

Regional Maps

• Maeracoota Myers, A.A. 1997. Amphipoda from the South Pacific: Western Samoa. Records of the Australian Museum 49: 99-109 [103].

  Type species:

   Maeracoota tridentata Myers, 1997 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans, Caribbean Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central W coast

(no title)

Maeracoota sp.
— Unnamed species from Abrolhos Islands misidentified as Maera tenella by Tattersall, W.M. 1922. Amphipoda and Isopoda. The Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions to the Abrolhos Islands (Indian Ocean). Journal of the Linnaean Society of London. Zoology 35: 1–19 pls 1–3 [8], see Krapp-Schickel, T. & Ruffo, S. 2001. A new Maeracoota from the Caribbean sea: Maeracoota galani n. sp. (Crustacea Amphipoda, Melitidae). Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Verona 25: 3–8 [8].

Distribution: 200 m bathymetric (Central W coast).
Ecology: unknown.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		06-Feb-2013	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		05-Dec-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		30-Sep-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		17-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED