Species Paraleucothoe novaehollandiae (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Leucothoe novaehollandiae Haswell, W.A. 1879. On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(3): 319-356 pls 18-24 [329, pl. 20 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3471 3 specimens, Port Jackson, NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls.
• Leucothoe brevidigitata Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Collections from Melanesia. Part I. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Alert" 1881–2. London : British Museum pp. 178-322 pls 18-34. [313, pl. 34 fig. A].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (possibly in BMNH), Thursday Island, Torres Strait, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Paraleucothoe novaehollandiae (Haswell, 1879). —
  Stebbing, T.R.R. 1899. Revision of Amphipoda (continued). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 4: 205-211 [208]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Endocommensal, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

In ascidians of the genus Pyura.

General References

Barnard, J.L. 1972. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part I. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 103: i-vi 1-333 [262]

Hutchings, P., van der Velde, J.L. & Keable, S.J. 1989. Baseline survey of the benthic macrofauna of Twofold Bay, N.S.W., with a discussion of the marine species introduced into the Bay. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 110(4): 339-367

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