Genus Orthoprotella Mayer, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Orthoprotella Mayer, P. 1903. Die Caprellidae der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 34: 1-160 pls 1-10 [35].

  Type species:

   Protella australis Haswell, 1879 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Tas, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• South Africa

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, NE coast, Tas. Coast
  • Queensland: Great Barrier Reef
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
  • Western Australia: Lower W coast, SW coast

Distribution References

General References

Takeuchi, I. & Lowry, J.K. 2019. A taxonomic study on Orthoprotella and related genera (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) of New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Natural History 53: 17-18, 1023-1059 [1050]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	21-Apr-2020	MODIFIED
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		31-Mar-2010	ADDED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED