Species Neoniphargus spenceri (Sayce, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Unimelita spenceri Sayce, O.A. 1901. Description of some new Victorian freshwater Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 13: 225-242 pls 36-40 [238, pl. 40].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV J216 (NMV unregistered), among spongy moss at the source of a spring running into Wallaby Creek, Plenty Ranges, VIC and Lake Petrarch (as Petrach), TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Neoniphargus spenceri (Sayce, 1901). —
  Williams, W.D. & Barnard, J.L. 1988. The taxonomy of crangonyctoid Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Australian fresh waters: foundation studies. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 10: 1-180 [133, figs. 77-80]

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, vegetation-held water.

Extra Ecological Information

610 m alt.

General References

Smith, G.W. 1909. The fresh-water Crustacea of Tasmania, with remarks on their geographical distribution. Copepoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 11(2): 61-92

Williams, W.D. & Barnard, J.L. 1988. The taxonomy of crangonyctoid Amphipoda (Crustacea) from Australian fresh waters: foundation studies. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 10: 1-180

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