Species Pronoe capito Guérin Méneville, 1836

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pronoe capito 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 [7, pl. 17 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANSP CA2674 ♂ (Guérin-Méneville Coll. No. 454), coast of Chile (as 'la mer qui baigne les cotes du Chili').

  Secondary source:

   Zeidler, W. 1997. The hyperiid amphipod specimens in the Guérin-Méneville Collection surviving in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 148: 121-146.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Rare in tropical waters.

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic.

 

General References

Thurston, M.H. 1976. The vertical distribution and diurnal migration of the Crustacea Amphipoda collected during the SOND Cruise, 1965. II. The Hyperiidea and general discussion. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 56: 383-470

Young, J.W. & Anderson, D.T. 1987. Hyperiid amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida) from a warm-core eddy in the Tasman Sea. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38(6): 711-725

Zeidler, W. 1992. Hyperiid amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea) collected recently from eastern Australian waters. Records of the Australian Museum 44(1): 85-133

 

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