Species Whiteleggia stephensoni Boesch, 1973

Museums

Regional Maps

• Whiteleggia stephensoni Boesch, D.F. 1973. Three new tanaids (Crustacea Tanaidacea) from southern Queensland. Pacific Science 27: 168-188 [181].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM P18698 ♂, southwest of Southwest Rocks, Peel Is., Moreton Bay, QLD.
  Paratype(s) AM P18745 allotype ♀.
• Whiteleggia incerta Guţu, M. 2006. New Apseudomorph Taxa of the World Ocean: Crustacea, Tanaidacea. Bucharest, Romania : Curtea Veche 318 pp. [297].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W8709 ♀, mouth of Brisbane River, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bamber, R.N. 2008. Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. pp. 143–217 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. (eds). Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(1) [146]

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, subtidal.

General References

Bamber, R.N. 2008. Tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Moreton Bay, Queensland. pp. 143–217 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. (eds). Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(1) [146] (remarks; Queensland record)

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