Species Thalassina emerii Bell, 1844
- Thalassina emerii Bell, T. 1844. On the Thalasina Emerii, a fossil crustacean, forwarded by Mr. W.S. MacLeay, from New Holland. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 4(2): 360-362 1 fig. [93].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH fossilised ecdysis, 'New Holland', but considered likely to have come from the region of Anson Bay, near the mouth of the Daly River, NT.Type locality references:
Etheridge, R. & McCulloch, A.R. 1916. Sub-fossil crustaceans from the coasts of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 11: 1-14 pls 1-7 [2]. - Thalassina antiqua Bell, T. 1844. [a notice of the reading of Prof. Bell's paper to the Geological Society]. Annals of Natural History 14: 455 [455] [nom. nud.].
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Estuary, intertidal, mangrove.
General References
Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [475] (this species, previously only known from fossil material, has been recently identified from museum specimens from NW Australia as part of a revision being undertaken by Ngoc-Ho and de Saint Laurent of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
History of changes
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