Subspecies Waldeckia kroyeri kroyeri (White, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ephippiphora kroyeri White, A. 1847. Descriptions of new or little-known Crustacea in the collection at the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 118-126 [124].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 45.47 (of which only one specimen now available), TAS (as Van Diemens Land).

  Secondary source:

   Thurston, M.H. & Allen, E. 1969. Type material of the families Lysianassidae, Stegocephalidae, Ampeliscidae and Haustoriidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in the collections of the British Museum (Natural History). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zool. 17: 347-388 [372].

 

Generic Combinations

• Waldeckia kroyeri kroyeri (White, 1847). —
  Pirlot, J.M. 1936. Les amphipodes de l'expédition du Siboga. Deuxième partie: les amphipodes gammarides, II: Les amphipodes de la mer profonde. 3: Addendum et partie generale. III: Les amphipodes littoraux. I: Lysianassidae, Ampeliscidae, Leucothoidae, Stenothoidae, Phliantidae, Colomastigidae, Ochlesidae, Liljeborgiidae, Oedicerotidae, Synopiidae, Eusiridae, Gammaridae. Siboga-Expéditie Report 33(E): 237-328 [268, fig. 105C]
• Socarnes kroyeri (White, 1847). —
  Stebbing, T.R.R. 1906. Amphipoda I. Gammaridae. Das Tierreich 21: 1-806 [57]
• Lysianassa kroyeri (White, 1847) [as Lysianassa kröyeri]. —
  Spence Bate, C. 1862. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum 399 pp. 58 pls. [65, pl. 10, fig. 4]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Also in east Indo-west Pacific Ocean.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom.

 

General References

Chilton, C. 1921. Report on the Amphipoda obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour in Australian seas. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 5(2): 33-92 (as Ephippiphora kroyeri)

Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. Collections from Melanesia. Part I. Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Alert" 1881–2. London : British Museum pp. 178-322 pls 18-34. (as Ephippiphora kroyeri)

 

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		28-May-2010	ADDED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED