Species Victoriopisa australiensis (Chilton, 1923)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Niphargus australiensis Chilton, C. 1923. Occasional notes on Australian Amphipoda. Records of the Australian Museum 14(2): 79-100 [80, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P5852, South West Creek, 400 m from the sea, Macleay River, South West Rocks, Trial Bay, NSW, tidal lagoon [~ 30°53'S 153°03'E].

Generic Combinations

• Victoriopisa australiensis (Chilton, 1923). —
  Stock, J.H. 1980. Amsterdam Expeditions to the West Indies Islands, Report 8. A new cave Amphipod (Crustacea) from Curacao: Psammogammarus cabsicolus N. Sp. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 50(2): 375-386 [383]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, mangroves, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral (0 to 30 m), mud flats.

General References

Jones, A.R. 1987. Temporal patterns in the macobenthic communities of the Hawkesbury Estuary, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 38: 607-624

Jones, A.R., Watson-Russell, C.J. & Murray, A. 1986. Spatial patterns in the macrobenthic communities of the Hawkesbury Estuary, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37: 521-543

Karaman, G.S. & Barnard, J.L. 1979. Classificatory revisions in gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea), part 1. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 92(1): 106-165

Lowry, J.K. & Springthorpe, R.T. 2005. New and little-known melitid amphipods from Australian waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Melitidae). Records of the Australian Museum 57(2): 237-302 [280, figs 44-46]

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