Species Mallacoota subcarinata (Haswell, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Megamoera subcarinata Haswell, W.A. 1879. On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(3): 319-356 pls 18-24 [335, pl. 21 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM G5390 ♂ 9.6 mm, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S, 151°16'E]; AM P63972 ♀ 10.4 mm, Port Jackson, NSW [33°51'S, 151°16'E]; AM P3492 3 specimens, Port Stephens, NSW [32°42'S, 152°06'E]; AM P63973 2 specimens.

Generic Combinations

• Mallacoota subcarinata (Haswell, 1879). —
  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 [269, figs. 29-33]
• Elasmopus subcarinatus (Haswell, 1879). —
  Stebbing, T.R.R. 1906. Amphipoda I. Gammaridae. Das Tierreich 21: 1-806 [441]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, marine, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

Littoral to continental shelf (0 to 200 m), 4.5-95 m, on sponge Halme gigantea, on gorgonaceans

History of changes