Species Mallacoota capricornia Lowry & Hughes, 2009

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mallacoota capricornia Lowry, J.K. & Hughes, L.E. 2009. Maeridae, the Elasmopus group. pp. 643-702 in Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (eds). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 2260: 1-930 [673, figs. 17, 18].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P78030 ♂ 6.5 mm (6 slides), Picnic Beach, Palfrey Island, Lizard Island, QLD [14°41.69’S 145°26.89’E].
  Paratype(s) AM P78032 ♀ 7.6 mm.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Madagascar

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef
• Fiji

Ecological Descriptors

Among algae, coral rubble, epibenthic, marine, sponges.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral (0 to 30 m).

 

General References

Hughes, L.E. 2011. New species of Hoho, Mallacoota and Parelasmopus (Maeridae: Amphipoda) from Australian waters. Zootaxa 2955: 1-79 [42]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	MAERIDAE Krapp-Schickel, 2008	04-Nov-2014	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		30-Sep-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		17-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		27-Apr-2010	(import)