Species Natatolana variguberna (Holdich, Harrison & Bruce, 1981)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cirolana variguberna Holdich, D.M., Harrison, K. & Bruce, N.L. 1981. Cirolanid isopod crustaceans from the Townsville region of Queensland, Australia, with descriptions of six new species. Journal of Natural History 15: 555-605 [566].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W6337 ♂, Halifax Bay, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM W6338; NMV J1350; whereabouts unknown numerous specimens from 3 localities (probably in collections of D. Holdich at Nottingham University, but some distributed to Australian Museum and Museum of Victoria); AM P32109–14 (see Springthorpe & Lowry (1994)).

  Secondary source:

   Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1994. Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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: Central E coast, N coast, NE coast
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, scavenger, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom.

 

General References

Bruce, N.L. 1986. Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 6: 1-239 [105] (distribution)

Bruce, N.L. 1995. Cirolana and related marine isopod crustacean genera (family Cirolanidae) from the coral reefs of Madang, Papua New Guinea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 35: 375-413 [409] (distribution)

Keable, S.J. 1995. Structure of the marine invertebrate scavenging guild of a tropical reef ecosystem: field studies at Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia. Journal of Natural History 29: 27-45 (distribution, ecology)

Keable, S.J. 1997. The Cirolanidae (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, with additional records from northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. pp. 245-278 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. [269] (distribution)

Keable, S.J. 2006. Taxonomic revision of Natatolana (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cirolanidae). Records of the Australian Museum 58: 133-244 (diagnosis, distribution)

 

History of changes

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