Genus Stenothoe Dana, 1852

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stenothoe Dana, J.D. 1852. On the classification of the Crustacea Choristopoda or Tetradecapoda. American Journal of Science and Arts 2 14(41): 297-316 [311].

  Type species:

   Stenothoe valida Dana, 1853 by subsequent monotypy, see Dana, J.D. 1853. Crustacea, Part II. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 14: 689-1618 (originally without included species, rediagnosed with included species).
• Probolium Costa, A. 1853. Relazione sulla memoria del Dottor Achille Costa, di ricerche su' crostacei amfipodi del regno di Napoli. Rendiconti. Accademia delle Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche 2: 167-178 [170].

  Type species:

   Probolium polyprion Costa, 1853 by monotypy.
• Montagua Spence Bate, C. 1856. On the British Edriophthalmata. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Glasgow 1855: 18-62 [57] [no type species designated; originally included nominal species Cancer (Gammarus) monoculoides (Montagu, 1815); Montagua marinus Spence Bate, 1856 (nom. nud.); Montagua pollexianus Spence Bate, 1856 (nom. nud.) and Montagua dubius Spence Bate, 1856 (nom. nud.)].
• Montaguana Chilton, C. 1883. Further additions to our knowledge of the New Zealand Crustacea. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 15: 69-86 [78] [nom. nov. for Montagua Spence Bate, 1856].
• Microstenothoe Pirlot, J.M. 1933. Un nouvel amphipode ascidicole. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 633: 1-6 [2].

  Type species:

   Microstenthoe ascidiae Pirlot, 1933 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [698]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Central E coast, G. Aust. Bight, Lower E coast, Lower W coast, SW coast
  • Queensland: NE coast

Distribution References

General References

Krapp-Schickel, T. 2006. New Australian Stenothoids (Crustacea, Amphipoda) with key to all Stenothoe species. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona Botanica Zoologia 30: 39-56 (key to all species)

Krapp-Schickel, T. 2015. Minute but constant morphological differences within members of Stenothoidae: the Stenothoe gallensis group with four new members, keys to Stenothoe worldwide, a new species of Parametopa and Sudanea n. gen. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Journal of Natural History

 

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
29-Apr-2015	Stenothoe Dana, 1852	29-Apr-2015	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	06-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		08-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		19-May-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED