• Pseudoprotella Mayer, P. 1890. Die Caprelliden des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte. Fauna Flora Golfe Neapel 17: 1-157 pls 1-7 [18].

  Type species:

   Cancer phasma Montagu, 1804 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coast

General References

Montagu, G. 1804. VII. Description of several Marine Animals found on the South Coast of Devonshire. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 7: 61-65 pls 6, 7 [61]

History of changes

• Pseudoprotella australiensis Guerra-Garcia, J.M. & Ahyong, S.T. 2020. A new genus and two new species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from mesophotic and deep-sea waters of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 72(2): 45-62 [Date published 24/6/2020] [52].
  Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/NomenclaturalActs/439B99F5-7E80-4219-9104-AE62535658D6

  Type data:

   Holotype AM AM P.101359 ♂, south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E].
  Paratype(s) AM AM P.101360 ♀ (“a”, mature female (vial + 2 slides) (mouthparts dissected, used for description, figured)), south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E]; AM AM P.101361 ♀ (paratype “b”, mature female (vial, no slides) (mouthparts not dissected)), south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E]; AM AM P.101362 ♀ (paratype “c”, mature female (vial + 2 slides) (mouthparts dissected)), south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E]; AM AM P.101363 ♂ (paratype “d” , mature male (vial, no slides) (mouthparts not dissected)), south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E]; AM AM P.101364 ♂ (paratype “e”, juvenile male (vial, no slides) (mouthparts not dissected, figured)), south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E]; AM AM P.101365 ♀ (paratype “f”, premature female (vial, no slides) (mouthparts not dissected, figured)), south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E]; AM AM P.101366 ♀ & ♂ (25 mature males, 11 mature females, 3 premature females (vial containing all these specimens, no slides)), south-east of Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia [33°36'S 151°30'E to 33°37'S 151°29'E].

  Type locality references:

  Guerra-Garcia, J.M. & Ahyong, S.T. 2020. A new genus and two new species of Caprellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from mesophotic and deep-sea waters of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 72(2): 45-62 [Date published 24/6/2020] [52].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

History of changes

• Pseudoprotella soela Guerra-García, J.M. 2004. The Caprellidea (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Western Australia and Northern Territory, Australia. Hydrobiologia 522: 1-74 [55, figs. 48-51].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P62135 ♀ (6.3 mm), Northwest Shelf, WA.
  Paratype(s) AM P62136 ♀; AM P62137 ♀; AM P62138 ♀ premature; AM P62139 ♀♀; AM P62140 ♀ premature.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

History of changes