Genus Mallacoota Barnard, 1972

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mallacoota Barnard, J.L. 1972. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part I. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 103: i-vi 1-333 [243].

  Type species:

   Megamoera diemenensis Haswell, 1879 by original designation.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

MELITIDAE: Mallacoota nananui Myers, 1986 — Myers, A.A. 1986. Amphipoda from the South Pacific: Niue Island. Journal of Natural History 20: 1381-1392 (recorded this species, however distribution record not based on any Australian material); Lowry, J.K. in Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. (excluded this species)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar
• Mauritius
• Seychelles

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, G. Aust. Bight, Great Barrier Reef, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, Tas. Coast
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Carpentaria, NE coast, NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Bass Strait
  • Victoria: Bass Strait
  • Western Australia: Lower W coast
• Fiji
• Hawaii
• Kiribati
• New Caledonia
• Tonga

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
• Philippines

Distribution References

General References

Bopiah, A. & Hughes, L.E. 2013. New species and records of Mallacoota from the South Pacific (Maeridae: Amphipoda: Peracarida). Marine Biodiversity Records 6: 1-16 (South Pacific taxa)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	PERACARIDA Calman, 1904	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Lauren Timms (NMV) Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	17-May-2022	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong (AM)
05-Aug-2022	MAERIDAE Krapp-Schickel, 2008	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED