Species Xenocheira fasciata Haswell, 1879

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xenocheira fasciata Haswell, W.A. 1879. On Australian Amphipoda. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4: 245-279 pls 7-12 [272, pl. 11 fig. 6].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM P25466 1 specimen, Port Jackson, NSW
  Comment: unjustified attribution of holotype status by Moore, P.G. 1988. Taxonomic observations on the genera Xenocheira Haswell and Ericthonius Milne Edwards (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Australian coastal waters. Journal of Natural History 22: 705–732.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Hughes, L.E. 2017. Review of Xenocheira Haswell, 1879 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Aoridae). Records of the Australian Museum 69(4): 223–236 [Date published 6 Sep 17] [226].

  Type locality references:

  Moore, P.G. 1988. Taxonomic observations on the genera Xenocheira Haswell and Ericthonius Milne Edwards (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Australian coastal waters. Journal of Natural History 22: 705-732.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Central E coast, Lower E coast, Tas. Coast

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom.

 

General References

Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls.

Moore, P.G. 1988. Taxonomic observations on the genera Xenocheira Haswell and Ericthonius Milne Edwards (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Australian coastal waters. Journal of Natural History 22: 705-732

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	20-Sep-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	12-Feb-2013	MOVED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		31-Mar-2010	ADDED
05-Aug-2022		31-Mar-2010	ADDED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED