Species Rhabdosoma armatum (Milne Edwards, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oxycephalus armatus Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Roret Vol. 3 638 pp. 42 pls. [101].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANSP CA 4200 ♂ (Guérin Méneville Coll. No. 458), between Ambon and TAS (as 'entre Amboine et la Terre de Vandiemen'); whereabouts unknown (of other syntypes).

  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 [139].
• Macrocephalus longirostris Spence Bate, C. 1858. On some new genera and species of Crustacea Amphipoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 1: 361-362 [362].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♀ (lost), South Atlantic Ocean.

  Type locality references:

  Spence Bate, C. 1862. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 399 pp. 58 pls. [344-345].
• Rhabdosoma sanzoi Cecchini, C. 1929. Oxicefalidi del Mar Rosso. Annali Idrographici Genova Mem 8: 478-492, pls 1-6 [489, pl. 6].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), Red Sea.

 

Generic Combinations

• Rhabdosoma armatum (Milne Edwards, 1840). —
  Shih, C.-T. & Chen, Q.C. 1995. Zooplankton of China Seas (2) — The Hyperiidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Beijing : China Ocean Press 295 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, circumglobal (except west Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic.

 

General References

Barnard, K.H. 1931. Amphipoda. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 4: 111-135 [132]

Fage, L. 1960. Oxycephalidae. Amphipode pelagiques. Dana Reports 52: 1-145 [87]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
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
		12-Feb-2010	(import)