Species Palaemonetes australis Dakin, 1915

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palaemonetes australis Dakin, W.J. 1915. Fauna of West Australia, IV Palaemonetes australis sp. nov. being the first record of the genus in Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915: 571-574 [571 pl. 1].

  Type data:

   Neotype WAM 108-75 ♀ adult, Upper Swan Bridge.
  Paratype(s) WAM 36-74; WAM 96-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 102-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 101-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 92-75 1♂; WAM 93-75 1♀; WAM 97-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 110-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 103-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 109-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 100-75 2♂ 2♀; WAM 107-75 2♂ 2♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bray, D.M. 1976. A review of two Western Australian shrimps of the genus Palaemonetes, P. australis Dakin, 1915 and P. atrinubes sp. nov. (Decapoda, Palaemonidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 4: 65-84.

 

Generic Combinations

• Palaemon australis (Dakin, 1915). —
  De Grave, S. & Ashelby, C.W. 2013. A re-appraisal of the systematic status of selected genera in Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae). Zootaxa 3734(3): 331–344 [337]
• Palaemonetes australis (Dakin, 1915).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Record from NT possibly a misidentification.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, freshwater, littoral, mangrove, omnivore.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Dec-2013		12-Dec-2013	MOVED
22-Jul-2013		22-Jul-2013	MODIFIED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)