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Amaryllis macrophthalma Haswell, 1879 
AphiaID: 214721

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Gammaridea (Suborder) > Lysianassoidea (Superfamily) > Amaryllididae (Family) > Amaryllidinae (Subfamily) > Amaryllis (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Amaryllis Haswell, 1879
Parent Amaryllis Haswell, 1879
Synonymised
taxa
  Amaryllis macrophthalmus Haswell, 1879 (Spelling variation)
Sources  basis of record: GRIFFITHS C.L. (1973). The amphipoda of Southern Africa. I.The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of southern Moçambique Annals of the South African Museum, 60(10): 265-306. figs.4-11. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Stebbing T.R.R. (1906). Amphipoda. I. Gammaridea. Das Tiereich, 21, 1-806, 127 figs.
page(s): 24 [details]


basis of record: Stoddart, H.E.; Lowry, J.K. (2006). Amaryllididae. In: J.K. Lowry (ed.), World checklist of the Amphipoda. [details]

additional source: Lowry, J.K.; Stoddart, H.E. (2003). Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida. In W.W.K. Houston & A. Wells, Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 19.2a, 531 pp, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia.
page(s): 43 [details]


from synonym: Haswell W.A. (1879a). On Australian Amphipoda. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 4, pp. 245-279;pls. 7-12.
page(s): 253 [details] [view taxon]


context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution type locality: Tasmania [details]
Australia [details]
Mozambique [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Specimens  Neotype: AM P37214 [details]
Holotype  [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Amphipod Collection
Notes  Depth range: Littoral to continental shelf (0 to 200 m), 6-82 m, rarely 146-219 m depth [details]

Distribution: Australia: Port Jackson, New South Wales south to Spencer Gulf, South Australia [details]

Distribution: Cosmopolitan in southern hemisphere (Griffiths, 1974). [details]

habitat: fine and coarse sediment (mud, muddy sand, muddy fine shell, sandy mud, fine sand, fine shelly sand, medium sand, very coarse sand, medium shell, coarse shell); bryozoans; algal holdfasts [details]

Publication date: Described in 1880 according to Griffiths (1973) [details]

Type locality: Derwent Estuary, D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania (~ 42°54'S 147°23'E). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214721
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-03-05 10:53:35Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2007-07-29 19:52:45Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-07-05 06:58:54Z  checked  Lowry, Jim
  
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  Citation: Lowry, J. (2013). Amaryllis macrophthalma Haswell, 1879. In: Lowry, J. (2013) World Amphipoda database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214721 on 2013-05-22
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