Genus Oxycephalus Milne Edwards, 1830

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• Oxycephalus Milne Edwards, H. 1830. Extrait de recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des Crustacés Amphipodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 20: 353-399 pls 10-11 [396].

  Type species:

   Oxycephalus piscatoris Milne Edwards, 1830 by monotypy.
• Orio Cocco, A. 1832. Su di alcuni nuovi Crostacei de mari di Messina. Effemeridi scientifiche e letterarie per la Sicilia 2: 205-209 [206].

  Type species:

   Orio orinthorhtampus Cocco, 1832 by monotypy.
• Ornithoramphus Natale, G. de 1850. Descrizione zoologica d'una nuova specie di Plojaria e di alcuni Crostacei del Porto de Messina conpoche considerazioni generali sulla natura delle appendicia culeiformi della piante e degli animali. 31 pp. appendix 2 pp., 2 pls [12].

  Type species:

   Ornithoramphus coccoi Natale, 1850 by monotypy.
• Erpetoramphus Natale, G. de 1850. Su pochi Crostacei del porto di Messina. Lettera del Dottor Giuseppe de Natale socio corrispondente dell' Academia giornia di Catania al Sig. Achille Costa con una tavola in rame. Napoli. 16 pp. [11].

  Type species:

   Erpetoramphus costae Natale, 1850 by monotypy.
• Natalius Costa, A. 1864. Di alcuni Crostacei degli acefali e diun distomi deo parasitto. Rendiconti. Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche 3: 86-91 [87].

  Type species:

   Natalius dandidissimus Costa, 1864 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zeidler, W. 1999. Review of the hyperiidean amphipod genus Oxycephalus Milne-Edwards (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Oxycephalidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 391-424

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in tropical to temperate waters.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic
• New Zealand
  • South Island

Oriental Region

• Philippines

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		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED