Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985

Poore, Gary C. B. & Lowry, James K., 2023, New Australian Species of Ampeliscidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Great Barrier Reef and Eastern Australia with a Key to Australian Species, Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 75 (4), pp. 519-533 : 528

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3853/j.2201-4349.75.2023.1890

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8580D095-3E88-4FB5-B2D6-5DA6755BB16A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10413630

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/403187E4-FFAB-FFE5-FF0E-14033C8EF896

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Felipe

scientific name

Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985
status

 

Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985 View in CoL

Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985: 284 View in CoL , fig. 20.

Material examined. NMV J71732 About NMV , 1 specimen, Australia, Queensland, 1 km E of Yorke Island, Torres Strait , 09.8°S 143.4°E, 41 m (ASB-1 stn) GoogleMaps ; NMV J71733–71739 About NMV , 22 specimens, N end of Hervey Bay, off Burnett Heads , 24.5°S 152.8°E, 22–49 m (ASB-5 stns) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Australia, Queensland (9°S) to South Australia, shelf and bays, 4– 176 m.

Remarks. Ampelisca toora is immediately recognized by the saddle-like crest on urosomite 1 and the oblique posterodistal margin of the basis of pereopod 7 (slightly concave near the distal corner). The species ranges from Spencer Gulf, South Australia, to Torres Strait, Queensland (9°S). Lowry & Poore (1985) recorded it only as far north as Fraser Island, Queensland.

NMV

Museum Victoria

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Amphipoda

Family

Ampeliscidae

Genus

Ampelisca

Loc

Ampelisca toora Lowry & Poore, 1985

Poore, Gary C. B. & Lowry, James K. 2023
2023
Loc

Ampelisca toora

Lowry, J. K. & G. C. B. Poore 1985: 284
1985
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