Species Sheardella kapala Lowry, 1984

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sheardella kapala Lowry, J.K. 1984. Systematics of the pachynid group of lysianassoid Amphipoda (Crustacea). Records of the Australian Museum 36(2): 51-105 [54, figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P32390 ♀, east of Port Jackson, NSW, 80 m [33°52'S 151°23'E].
  Paratype(s) AM P32391 2 specimens (Paratypes from same locality as holotype).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

South-eastern Australia, western South Pacific Ocean; 33-124 m depth

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom.

 

General References

Barnard, J.L. & Karaman, G.S. 1991. The families and genera of marine gammaridean Amphipoda (except marine gammaroids). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 13: 1-866 [530]

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2B. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 531 pp. [170]

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2012. The Pachynidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea). Zootaxa 3246: 1-69 [57, fig 40]

Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1994. Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134 [21]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		26-Apr-2012	MOVED
05-Aug-2022		17-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED