Species Oxycephalus piscator Milne Edwards, 1830

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• Oxycephalus piscatoris 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] [epithat originally piscatoris, “piscator” in use since 1840].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), Indian Ocean.

  Type locality references:

  Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Roret Vol. 3 638 pp. 42 pls. [100].
• Oxycephalus oceanicus Guérin Méneville, F.-E. 1836. Description de quelques genres nouveau de Crustacés appartenant à la famille des Hyperinés. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 6(7): 1-10 pls 17-18 [10, pl. 18(2)].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP CA2668 ♂ (Guérin-Méneville Coll. No. 457), seas of Chile.

  Secondary source:

   Zeidler, W. 1997. The hyperiid amphipod specimens in the Guérin-Méneville Collection surviving in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 148: 121-146.
• Oxycephalus bulbosus Streets, T.H. 1878. Pelagic Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1878: 276-290 pl. 2 [280, pl. 2 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown 3♀ (lost), [28°00'N 140°00'W; 27°00'N 140°00'W; 35°45'N 144°25'W].
• Oxycephalus similis Claus, C. 1879. Die Gattungen und Arten der Platysceliden in Systematischer Uebersicht. Arbeiten aus dem Zoologischen Institut der Universitat Wien 2: 147-198 [reprint numbered as pp. 1–52] [193].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), Messina.
• Oxycephalus edwardsii Thomson, G.M. 1884. Descriptions of new crustaceans. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 234-240 pls 12-13 [238, pl. 12(14-21), 13(1)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (possibly in BMNH 1928.2.1.2919–22), Ocean Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand.

 

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 [394]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, circumglobal.

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 Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic.

 

General References

Fage, L. 1960. Oxycephalidae. Amphipode pelagiques. Dana Reports 52: 1-145 [14]

Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Roret Vol. 3 638 pp. 42 pls. (changed spelling of species epithet)

Tranter, H.A. 1977. Further studies of plankton ecosystems in the Eastern Indian Ocean. VII. Ecology of the Amphipoda. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 645-662 [651]

Zeidler, W. 1998. Pelagic amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected from eastern and south-eastern Australian waters by the CSIRO vessel "Warreen" during the years 1938–1941. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 4: 1-143 [110-111, fig. 62]

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

 

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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)