Genus Melita Leach, 1814

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melita Leach, W.E. 1814. Crustaceology. pp. 383-437 in Brewster, D. Sir (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh : John Murray Baldwin & Cradocle Vol. 7 (2). [403].

  Type species:

   Cancer palmatus Montagu, 1804 by monotypy.
• Boscia Leach, W.E. 1814. Crustaceology. pp. 383-437 in Brewster, D. Sir (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Edinburgh : John Murray Baldwin & Cradocle Vol. 7 (2). [435] [nom. nud.].
• Caliniphargus Stout, V.R. 1913. Studies in Laguna Amphipoda. II. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 34: 633-659 [640].

  Type species:

   Caliniphargus sulcus Stout, 1913 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Barnard, J.L. & Barnard, C.M. 1983. Freshwater Amphipoda of the World. I. Evolutionary Patterns. II. Handbook and Bibliography. Virginia : Hayfield Associates 830 pp. [663]
• Jarrett, N.E. & Bousfield, E.L. 1996. The amphipod superfamily Hadzioidea on the Pacific coast of North America: Family Melitidae. Part 1. The Melita group: systematics and distributional ecology. Amphipacifica 2(2): 3-74

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast
  • New South Wales: Lower E coast, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef, NE coast
• Fiji
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand

Oriental Region

• Sri Lanka

Distribution References

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		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		18-Jun-2010	ADDED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED