Genus Phronima Latreille, 1802

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phronima Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)] [38].

  Type species:

   Cancer sedentarius Forsskål, 1775 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1979. Opinion 1133. Suppression under the plenary powers of names for genera and species of Amphipoda proposed by Rafinesque between 1814 and 1820. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 36(2): 91-101 [92].
• Pisitoe Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1814. Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de M. r. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814. Ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palermo : Royale Typographie Militaire 55 pp. + errata. [25].

  Type species:

   Pisitoe levifrons Rafinesque, 1814 by subsequent designation, see Bousfield, E.L. & Holthuis, L.B. 1969. Proposed use of the plenary powers for the suppression of the names proposed between 1814 and 1820 by C.S. Rafinesque for two genera and four species belonging to the order Amphipoda (Class Crustacea), and matters connected therewith. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 26(2): 105-112 [105, 107].
• Bivonia Cocco, A. 1832. Su di alcuni nuovi Crostacei de mari di Messina. Effemeridi scientifiche e letterarie per la Sicilia 2: 205-209.

  Type species:

   Bivonia zanzara Cocco, 1832 by indication.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stebbing, T.R.R. 1888. Report on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 29: i-xxiv + 1-1713, 210 pls (3 vols) [1346]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal, excuding Arctic and Antarctic regions.

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), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: NE coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, NW oceanic, S oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic
• New Zealand

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