Species Notomysis australiensis (Tattersall, 1927)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leptomysis australiensis Tattersall, W.M. 1927. Australian opossum shrimps (Mysidacea). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 3: 235-257 [246, fig. 100].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA C1617, 10 km off Semaphore, Gulf St Vincent, SA.
• Leptomysis longisquama Panampunnayil, S.U. 1986. New mysids from the South Australian coastal waters: Paranchialina secunda sp. nov.; Leptomysis longisquama sp. nov. and Doxomysis johnsoni sp. nov. Journal of Plankton Research 8: 1183-1195 [1189, figs 27-47].

  Type data:

   Holotype IOBC 0389–10–50–1985 ♂, coastal waters of south-west WA [exact locality not given] [between 33°–35°S and 114°–119°E].
  Paratype(s) IOBC 0389A–10–50–1985 1♀, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fenton, G.E. in Lowry, J.k. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. [454]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sublittoral.

General References

Wittmann, K.J. 1986. Redescription of the mysid crustacean Notomysis australiensis (Tattersall) comb. nov. representative of a new genus. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 139-143 [139]

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