Genus Urophoxus Gurjanova, 1977

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pontharpinia Stebbing, T.R.R. 1897. Amphipoda from the Copenhagen Museum and other sources. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2 7: 25-45 [32] [generic name unavailable by ICZN rule on confounded type species].

  Type species:

   Urothoe pinguis Haswell, 1879 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   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 [633].
• Urophoxus Gurjanova, E.F. 1977. Some new data in taxonomy of family Phoxocephalidae sensu lato (Amphipoda, Gammaridea). Report 1. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei Akademia Nauk Zoological Institute 21(29): 67-87 [in Russian] [85].

  Type species:

   Urothoe pinguis Haswell, 1879 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 [633]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast

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		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		30-Sep-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED