Species Urophoxus pinguis (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Urothoe pinguis Haswell, W.A. 1879. On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(3): 319-356 pls 18-24 [325, pl. 19 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown (lost), Bondi, NSW
  Comment: Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1978. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part III: The Phoxocephalidae. Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 245: 1–551 designated a lectotype AM G5406. It is not regarded here as a valid type designation.

  Type locality references:

  Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1978. Gammaridean Amphipoda of Australia, Part III: The Phoxocephalidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 245: 1-551.

Generic Combinations

• Urophoxus pinguis (Haswell, 1879). —
  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]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom.

History of changes