Species Nerocila orbignyi (Guérin-Menéville, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ichthyophilus orbignyi Guérin-Menéville, F.E. 1832. Crustacés. In, Expedition Scientifique de Morée. Section des sciences physiques ... Tom. 3 Partie 1. Zoologie. Section 2. Des Animaux Articulés. 400 pp. [47].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Modon, Greece.
• Nerocila australasiae Schioedte, J.C. & Meinert, F. 1881. Symbolae ad monographium Cymothoarum Crustaeorum Isopodum familiae II. Anilocridae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 13: 1-166, pls 1-10 [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 1139 ♀, Hobart, TAS (as Novae-Hollandiae).
• Nerocila novaezelandiae Schioedte, J.C. & Meinert, F. 1881. Symbolae ad monographium Cymothoarum Crustaeorum Isopodum familiae II. Anilocridae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 13: 1-166, pls 1-10 [70] [as Nerocila novae-zelandiae Schioedte & Meinert, 1881].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP Is.265 2♂ specimens, Melbourne, VIC and New Zealand; NHMW 5277 ♂, Melbourne, VIC and New Zealand.
• Nerocila macleayii Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. pp. 178-322 in Anon. (ed.). Report of the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS 'Alert', 1881–1882. London : British Museum (Natural History). [301].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1845.30, 1842.44, 1847.104, 1979.415.1, New Zealand
  Comment: of the material listed by Ellis (1981) only that from New Zealand is here regarded as having type status.
• Nerocila macleaii White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) viii 141 pp. [108] [nom. nud.].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bruce, N.L. 1987. Australian species of Nerocila Leach, 1818, and Creniola n. gen. (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39: 355-412 [374]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand, west Africa, Europe, Red Sea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Attaching on body and fins, parasitic on Mugilidae, Sparidae, Callorhynchidae, Carangidae, Silliganidae and Pomatomidae.

 

General References

Bruce, N.L. 1987. Australian species of Nerocila Leach, 1818, and Creniola n. gen. (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39: 355-412 (synonymy, description, figures, distribution)

Bruce, N.L. & Harrison-Nelson, E.B. 1988. New records of fish parasitic marine isopod crustaceans (Cymothoidae, subfamily Anilocrinae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101: 585-602 (distribution, figure)

Ellis, J. 1981. Some type specimens of Isopoda (Flabellifera) in the British Museum (Natural History), and the isopods in the Linnaean Collection. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 40: 121-128

 

History of changes

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