Species Quadrimaera serrata (Schellenberg, 1938)
- Maera inaequipes serrata Schellenberg, A. 1938. Litorale Amphipoden des tropischen Pazifiks. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 3 16(6): 1-105 [41, fig. 18].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ 5 mm, Ebbestrand Lagoon, Abamama Island, Kiribati (as Gilbert Islands).
Generic Combinations
- Quadrimaera serrata (Schellenberg, 1938). —
Krapp-Schickel, T. & Ruffo, S. 2000. The Maera quadrimana-complex (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Melitidae) demands a new concept Quadrimaera n. gen. (with description of three new species from Western Atlantic). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 24: 193-214 [195] - Maera serrata (Schellenberg, 1938).
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Atlantic and Indo-west central Pacific Oceans. Australia. Cocos (Keeling) Islands Queensland. Lizard Island (Berents, 1983, Krapp-Schickel, 2009a; Hughes, 2015). Fiji (Schellenberg, 1938, Myers, 1985). India (Sivaprakasam, 1966). Kiribati (Schellenberg, 1938, Barnard, 1965). Madagascar (Ledoyer, 1967, 1982). Mauritius (Appadoo et al., 2000). New Caledonia (Ledoyer, 1984). Red Sea (Ruffo, 1969). South Africa (Griffiths, 1973). USA. Hawaii (Schellenberg, 1938; J.L. Barnard, 1970).
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Afrotropical Region
- Madagascar
- Mauritius
- South Africa
Australian Region
- Australia
- 200 m bathymetric: Great Barrier Reef, Lower W coast
- Fiji
- Hawaii
- Kiribati
- New Caledonia
Oriental Region
- India
Distribution References
- Barnard, J.L. 1965. Marine Amphipoda of atolls in Micronesia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 117: 459-552
- Barnard, J.L. 1970. Sublittoral Gammaridea (Amphipoda) of the Hawaiian Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 34: 1-278
- Berents, P.B. 1983. The Melitidae of Lizard Island and adjacent reefs, The Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 101-143
- Griffiths, C. L. 1973. The Amphipoda of southern Africa. Part 1. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of southern Moçambique. Annals of the South African Museum 60(10): 265-306
- Hughes, L.E. 2015. Maeridae from the Indo-Pacific: Elasmopus, Leeuwinella gen. nov., Maeropsis, Pseudelasmopus and Quadrimaera (Amphipoda: Crustacea). Zootaxa 4059(2): 201–256 [Date published 22 Dec 2015]
- Krapp-Schickel, T. 2009. Maeridae, the Ceradocus group. pp. 598-642 in Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (eds). Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 2260: 1-930
- Ledoyer, M. 1982. Crustacés Amphipodes Gammariens. Familles des Acanthonotozomatidae à Gammaridae. Faune de Madagascar 59(1): 1-598
- Ledoyer, M. 1984. Les gammariens (Crustacea: Amphipoda) des herbiers de phanérogames marines de Nouvelle Calédonie (région de Nouméa). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] ns A. zool. 129: 1-113
- Myers, A.A. 1985. Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 5: 1-143
- Ruffo, S. 1969. Studi sui crostacei anfipodi LXIII. Descrizione di Metaingolfiella mirabilis n. gen., n. sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Metaingolfiellidae fam. nova) delle acque sotterranee del Salento nell'Italia meridionale. Memorie del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 16: 239-260
- Schellenberg, A. 1938. Litorale Amphipoden des tropischen Pazifiks. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 3 16(6): 1-105
Ecological Descriptors
Marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Lizard Is. specimens living among reef rock, dead coral and algae to depths to 12 m.
General References
Berents, P.B. 1983. The Melitidae of Lizard Island and adjacent reefs, The Great Barrier Reef, Australia (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Records of the Australian Museum 35: 101-143
Myers, A.A. 1985. Shallow-water, coral reef and mangrove Amphipoda (Gammaridea) of Fiji. Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 5: 1-143
Tattersall, W.M. 1922. Amphipoda and Isopoda. The Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions to the Abrolhos Islands (Indian Ocean). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 35: 1-19 pls 1-3 (as Maera tenella (Dana, 1852))
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 09-Apr-2016 | MODIFIED | Dr Shane Ahyong (AM) |
| 05-Aug-2022 | AMPHIPODA | 06-Feb-2013 | MOVED | Dr Jim Lowry (AM) |
| 05-Aug-2022 | 06-Feb-2013 | MOVED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 05-Dec-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 22-Nov-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 30-Sep-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 05-Aug-2022 | 17-Jun-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 09-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |