Species Tasmarcturus simplicissimus (Whitelegge, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Arcturus simplicissimus Whitelegge, T. 1904. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales (1898). Crustacea. Part IV. Isopoda. Part III. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4: 405-416 [406] [the types are lost and the description does not allow generic placement with any certainty, see Springthorpe, R. & Lowry, J.K. 1994. Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1–134].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM specimens lost, off Wattamolla (as Wata Mooli), NSW.

  Secondary source:

   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.

Generic Combinations

• Tasmarcturus simplicissimus (Whitelegge, 1904). —
  Poore, G.C.B. 2013. Rectarcturidae Poore, 2001 rediagnosed with descriptions of new Australian genera and species (Isopoda: Valvifera). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 70: 17–36 [33] (revised status, recognised as valid species in Rectarcturidae, though formerly considered incertae sedis in Arcturidae)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Poore, G.C.B. 2013. Rectarcturidae Poore, 2001 rediagnosed with descriptions of new Australian genera and species (Isopoda: Valvifera). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 70: 17–36 [33]

History of changes