Species Metaproto novaehollandiae (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Proto novaehollandiae Haswell, W.A. 1879. On Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 245-279 pls 7-12 [275, pl. 12 fig. 3] [as Proto Novae-Hollandiae].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G2566 1♂, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW [33°51ʹS, 151°16ʹE]; AM P3387 1♂, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW [33°51ʹS, 151°16ʹE]; AM P3388 20 specimens, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW [33°51ʹS, 151°16ʹE]; AM P46915 ♂, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51ʹS, 151°16ʹE]; AM P87331 mature ♀, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51ʹS, 151° 16ʹE].
• Metaproto Novae-Hollandiae Mayer, P. 1903. Die Caprellidae der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 34: 1-160 pls 1-10 [26, pl. 1: figs. 11, 12, pl. 6: figs. 24-28, pl. 9: figs 3, 50].

 

Generic Combinations

• Metaproto novaehollandiae (Haswell, 1879). —
  Stebbing, T.R.R. 1910. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Crustacea Part V. Amphipoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(12): 567-658, pls 47-60 [651]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Lower E coast

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Seagrass, epizoid, with antipatharians, echinoderms.

 

General References

Jones, A.R. 1987. Temporal patterns in the macobenthic communities of the Hawkesbury Estuary, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38: 607-624

Jones, A.R., Watson-Russell, C.J. & Murray, A. 1986. Spatial patterns in the macrobenthic communities of the Hawkesbury Estuary, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37: 521-543

Laubitz, D.R. 1991. Crustacea Amphipoda Caprellidea: Caprellids from the western Pacific (New Caledonia, Indonesia and the Philippines). pp. 101-123 in Crosnier, A. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol. 9. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] ser. A, Zool. 152: 1-520

McCain, J.C. & Steinberg, J.E. 1970. Part 2. Amphipoda I Caprellidea I Fam. Caprellidae. pp. 1-78 in Gruner, H.-E & Holthuis, L.B. (eds). Crustaceorum Catalogus. Den Haag : Dr W. Junk N.V.

Takeuchi, I. & Lowry, J.K. 2015. A taxonomic study on the Phtisicidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History [23, figs 11-16]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	CAPRELLIDAE Leach, 1814	06-Jan-2016	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	29-Apr-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		08-Jun-2011	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		06-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED