WoRMS taxon details
Parapherusa crassipes (Haswell, 1879)
237015 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:237015)
accepted
Species
Harmomia crassipes Haswell, 1879 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Harmomia crassipes Haswell, 1879) Haswell, W.A. (1879). On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 4: 319-350. pls.18-24.
page(s): 330 [details]
page(s): 330 [details]
Type locality contained in Australia, Port Jackson
Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m), intertidal to 22 m.
Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m), intertidal to 22 m. [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Parapherusa crassipes (Haswell, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=237015 on 2025-06-20
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Nomenclature
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(of Harmomia crassipes Haswell, 1879) Haswell, W.A. (1879). On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 4: 319-350. pls.18-24.
page(s): 330 [details]
basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
page(s): 330 [details]
basis of record De Broyer, C.; Lowry, J.K.; Jazdzewski, K. & Robert, H. (2007). Catalogue of the Gammaridean and Corophiidean Amphipoda (Crustacea) of the Southern Ocean, with distribution and ecological data. In: De Broyer C. (ed.). Census of Antarctic Marine Life: Synopsis of the Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Vol. I. <em>Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Biologie.</em> 77, suppl. 1: 1-325. [details]
Other
additional source
Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Chilton, C. (1916). Parapherusa crassipes (Haswell), an amphipod of Australasian seas. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 8 (18): 199-207. [details]
[request]additional source Chilton, C. (1916). Parapherusa crassipes (Haswell), an amphipod of Australasian seas. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 8 (18): 199-207. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Depth range Littoral (0 to 30 m), intertidal to 22 m. [details]Habitat Marine. According to Lowry & Fenwick (1983) Parapherusa crassipes occurs “intertidally among algae, coralline algae, sponges encrusting barnacles, hydroids, fine gravel and in Duruillaea antarctica holdfasts; subtidally among algae, in Lessonia variegata holdfasts, on fine shelly sand and among bryozoans”. [details]
Remark Parapherus crassipes has an extraordinary disjunct distribution: Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean; eastern Australia; and all of New Zealand. Although it was originally described from eastern Australia, Australian material has never been well illustrated. J.L. Barnard (1972b) compared the New Zealand and Tristan da Cunha populations and considered them to be morphologically the same. He considered that Parapherusa was most similar to taxa like Elasmopus and Ceradocus. According to Barnard & Barnard (1983) the short rami of uropod 3 (ampithoid-like) distinguish this group. [details]
