Species Parapherusa crassipes (Haswell, 1879)
- Harmomia crassipes 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 [330, pl. 19 fig. 3].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM G5394 2 specimens, Clark Island, Port Jackson, NSW [~ 33°51’47.10”S, 151°14’27.08”E]; AM P3467 1 specimen, Port Jackson, NSW.
Generic Combinations
- Parapherusa crassipes (Haswell, 1879). —
Stebbing, T.R.R. 1906. Amphipoda I. Gammaridae. Das Tierreich 21: 1-806 [383]
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Southern circumpolar. Tristan da Cunha (Stephensen, 1949).
IMCRA
Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Littoral, marine, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Algae, epizoic, among sponges and bryozoans, intertidal to 22 m. According to Lowry & Fenwick (1983) Parapherusa crassipes occurs “intertidally among algae, coralline algae, sponges encrusting barnacles, hydroids, fine gravel and in Duruillaea antarctica holdfasts; subtidally among algae, in Lessonia variegata holdfasts, on fine shelly sand and among bryozoans”.
General References
Lowry, J.K. & Fenwick, G.D. 1983. The shallow-water gammaridean Amphipoda of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand and Australia: Melitidae, Hadziidae. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 13(4): 201-260
Stebbing, T.R.R. 1906. Amphipoda I. Gammaridae. Das Tierreich 21: 1-806
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 06-Feb-2013 | MOVED | Dr Jim Lowry (AM) |
05-Aug-2022 | 22-Nov-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 30-Sep-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
05-Aug-2022 | 17-Jun-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
09-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |