Species Podocerus dentatus (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cyrtophium dentatum 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 [342, pl. 22 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P3423 3 specimens, Clark Island, Port Jackson, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Dexiocerella dentata (Haswell, 1879). —
  Haswell, W.A. 1885. Notes on the Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10(1): 95-114 pls 10-18 [109, pl. 17, figs 8–12]
• Podocerus dentatus (Haswell, 1879). —
  Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1994. Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134 [14]
  Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. [246]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, marine, sublittoral.

General 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.

Haswell, W.A. 1885. Notes on the Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10(1): 95-114 pls 10-18

Hughes, L.E. 2012. New and little-known Podoceridae (Peracarida: Amphipoda) of southern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 64(1): 71–120 [Date published 23 May 2012] [82–87, figs 9–12] (re-description)

Lowry, J.K. in Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. (material from Port Jackson, NSW and Griffith Point [Western Port], VIC, thought to be from Haswell's collections and held at the AM was examined. This material differs from New Zealand specimens identified as Podocerus cristatus (Thomson, 1879), with which it has been synonymised, see Stebbing (1906: 706); specimens from NSW and VIC may also represent separate species)

Stebbing, T.R.R. 1906. Amphipoda I. Gammaridae. Das Tierreich 21: 1-806

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