Genus Primno Guérin Méneville, 1836

Museums

Regional Maps

• Primno Guérin Méneville, F.-E. 1836. Description de quelques genres nouveau de Crustacés appartenant à la famille des Hyperinés. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 6(7): 1-10 pls 17-18 [2].

  Type species:

   Primno macropa Guérin Méneville, 1836 by monotypy.
• Euprimno Bovallius, C. 1889. Contributions to a monograph of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea. Part 1: 2. The families Cyllopodidae, Paraphronimidae, Thaumatopsidae, Mimonectidae, Hyperiidae, Phronomidae and Anchylomeridae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 22(7): 1-434 pls 1-18 [397] [unjustified emendation for Primno Guérin Méneville, 1836].
• Euprimnus Fraser, J.H. 1961. The oceanic and bathypelagic plankton of the north-east Atlantic and its possible significance to fisheries. Marine Research. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Scotland 1961(4): 1-48 [43] [lapsus calami].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal, except for the Arctic.

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), Cape Province (20), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic

General References

Bowman, T.E. 1978. Revision of the pelagic amphipod genus Primno (Hyperiidea: Phrosinidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 275: 1-23

 

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