Species Tryphosella camela (Stebbing, 1910)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tryphosa camelus Stebbing, T.R.R. 1910. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" Crustacea Part V. Amphipoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(12): 567-658, pls 47-60 [574, pl. 47A].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM P2470, 6 km E of Wattamolla (as Wata Mooli), "Thetis" Station 57, NSW, 99-108 m.

  Type locality references:

  Waite, R.E. 1899. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis", off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898. Introduction. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 4(1): 3-23.
• Tryphosa nana Chilton, C. 1921. Report on the Amphipoda obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour in Australian seas. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 5(2): 33-92 [43].

 

Generic Combinations

• Tryphosella camela (Stebbing, 1910).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia, from north Queensland to Tasmania; 1.5-400 m depth

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine, scavenger, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom, mud, 18–108 m depth.

 

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 [537]

Hutchings, P., van der Velde, J.L. & Keable, S.J. 1989. Baseline survey of the benthic macrofauna of Twofold Bay, N.S.W., with a discussion of the marine species introduced into the Bay. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 110(4): 339-367 [362]

Lowry, J.K. & Smith, S.D.A. 2003. Invertebrate scavenging guilds along the continental shelf and slope of eastern Australia - general description. Sydney : Australian Museum 59 pp. [56]

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. [171]

Lowry, J.K. & Stoddart, H.E. 2011. The tryphosine genera Photosella gen. nov. and Tryphosella Bonnier, 1893 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae) in Australian waters. Zootaxa 2956: 1-76 [25-30]

 

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		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		28-May-2010	ADDED
05-Aug-2022		28-May-2010	ADDED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED