Species Orthoprotella australis (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Protella australis Haswell, W.A. 1879. On Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 245-279 pls 7-12 [276, pl. 12 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G2557 6 specimens, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW; AM G2558 13 specimens, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW; AM P3385 many specimens, Port Jackson, Sydney, NSW.

 

Generic Combinations

• Orthoprotella australis (Haswell, 1879). —
  Mayer, P. 1903. Die Caprellidae der Siboga-Expedition. Siboga Expéditie Monographie 34: 1-160 pls 1-10 [35-36, pl. 1: figs. 23-24, pl. 6: figs. 45, 47-49, pl. 9: figs. 14, 37, 57]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Temperate, west Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, Lower E coast, NE coast, Tas. Coast

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Epizoic, on hydroids.

 

General References

Briggs, E.A. 1914. Notes on Tasmanian Caprellidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1914: 75-80 [78]

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 [1051, Figures 14–16]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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		06-Jun-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		31-Mar-2010	ADDED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED