Species Ligia (Nesoligia) australiensis Dana, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lygia australiensis Dana, J.D. 1853. Crustacea. Part 2. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(2): 686-1618 [Folio atlas of 96 plates] [740] [misspelling for Ligia].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM (types probably lost with most of Dana's material), NSW.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Three allopatric forms exist, differing in morphology of male sexual characters: (1) typical form, NSW, VIC, Bass Strait islands, northern two-thirds of TAS, southeastern SA; (2) southern third of TAS, including half of Freycinet Peninsula, Maria Is., Schouten Is.; (3) SA west of Coorong, including Kangaroo Is. Green, A.J.A. in Poore, G.C.B. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp..

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Supratidal, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

On stony shores.

 

General References

Green, A.J.A. 1961. A study of Tasmanian Oniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 258-365 (description of southern Tasmanian form)

Hale, H.M. 1927. The Fauna of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. No. 1–The Crustacea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 51: 307-321 (description of South Australian form)

Womersley, H.B.S. & Edmonds, S.J. 1958. A general account of the intertidal ecology of South Australian coasts. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 9: 217-260 (ecology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED