Genus Vibilia Milne Edwards, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Vibilia Milne Edwards, H. 1830. Extrait de recherches pour servir a l'histoire naturelle des Crustacés Amphipodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 20: 353-399 pls 10-11 [386].

  Type species:

   Vibilia peronii Milne-Edwards, 1830 by monotypy.
• Thaumalea Templeton, R. 1836. Descriptions of some undescribed exotic Crustacea. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 185-198 pls 20-22.

  Type species:

   Thaumalea depilis Templeton, 1836 by monotypy.
• Orattrina Natale, G. de 1850. Su pochi Crostacei del porto di Messina. Lettera del Dottor Giuseppe de Natale socio corrispondente dell' Academia giornia di Catania al Sig. Achille Costa con una tavola in rame. Napoli. 16 pp.

  Type species:

   Orattrina pulchella De Natale, 1850 by monotypy.
• Elasmocerus Costa, A. in Hope, F.W. 1851. Catalogo dei crostacei Italiani e di molti altri de Mediterraneo per Fr. Gugl. Hope. Napoli : Stabilimento Tipografico di Fr. Azzolino Vico Gerolomini num. 10, 48 pp., 2 figs. [22].

  Type species:

   Elasmocerus speciosus Costa, 1851 by monotypy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stebbing, T.R.R. 1888. Report on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 29: i-xxiv + 1-1713, 210 pls (3 vols) [1278]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Widely distributed in tropical and temperate seas.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, S oceanic, SE oceanic, W oceanic

General References

Zeidler, W. 2003. A review of the hyperiidean amphipod superfamily Vibilioidea Bowman & Gruner, 1973 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea). Zootaxa 280: 1-104 [8]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	06-Jun-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	29-Apr-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED