Genus Tylos Audouin, 1826

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tylos Audouin, V. 1826. Explication sommaire des planches de Crustacés de l'Egypte et de la Syrie, publiées par J.C. Savigny, member de l'Institut; offrant un exposé des caractères naturels des genres avec la distinction des espèces. pp. 77-98 in Jonard, E.F. (ed.). Description de l'Égypte, ou, Recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publie par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'empereur Napoleon le Grand. Histoire Naturelle. Paris : De L’Imprimerie Imperiale Vol. 1(4) 339 pp. [96].

  Type species:

   Tylos latreillei Audouin, 1826 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1955. Opinion 369. Suppression under the plenary powers of the generic names Tylos Meigen,1800 (Class Insecta, Order Diptera) and Tylos Heyden, 1826 (Class Arachnida) and validation thereby of the generic names Tylos Audouin, 1826 (Class Crustacea, Order Isopoda) and Micropeza Meige, 1803 (Class Insecta, Order Diptera). Opinions and Declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 11: 265-300 [267] (confirmation of generic name and type species).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal
• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)

Distribution References

General References

Brown, A.C. & Ordendaal, F.J. 1994. The biology of the oniscid Isopoda of the genus Tylos. Advances in Marine Biology 30: 89-153

Schmalfuss, H. & Vergara, K. 2000. The isopod genus Tylos (Oniscidea: Tylidae) in Chile, with bibliographies of all described species of the genus. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 612: 1-42

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED