World Amphipoda Database - Kapalana flindersi (Stebbing, 1888)

WoRMS taxon details

Kapalana flindersi (Stebbing, 1888)

AphiaID

1302047 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1302047)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Kapalana Berents & Lowry, 2018

Original name

Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888

Synonymised names

Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888) Stebbing, T.R.R. (1888). Report on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 29 (part 67): i-xxiv, 1-1737, pl. 1-212., available online at http://19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-67/htm/doc.html [details]

Type data

Holotype (of Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888) BMNH

Holotype (of Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888) BMNH [details]

Taxonomic citation

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. Kapalana flindersi (Stebbing, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1302047 on 2025-05-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-10-08 22:47:14Z

created

Souza-Filho, Jesser F.

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888) Stebbing, T.R.R. (1888). Report on the Amphipoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 29 (part 67): i-xxiv, 1-1737, pl. 1-212., available online at http://19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-67/htm/doc.html [details]

new combination reference Berents, P. B.; Lowry, J. K. (2018). The new crustacean amphipod genus Kapalana from Australian waters (Senticaudata, Ischyroceridae, Ischyrocerinae, Cerapodini). Records of the Australian Museum. 70(4): 391-421., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1711 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Holotype (of Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888) BMNH [details]

From editor or global species database

Remark The species known as Cerapus flindersi Stebbing, 1888
is based on a female from Flinders Passage in Torres Strait,
northern Queensland. It has never been re-collected and
the tube is not known. The specimen is held in The Natural
History Museum, London (BMNH 89.5.15.147) and consists
of four microscope slides. Based on the morphology of
antenna 1 peduncular article 1, we tentatively move it to
the genus Kapalana.
Walker & Scott (1903) reported a female from Abd al
Kuri, in the Gulf of Aden that they called Cerapus flindersi
and Chilton (1892) reported a male Cerapus flindersi
from Port Jackson, Australia, but in both cases the species
identification is dubious. Walker & Scott’s specimen is
poorly illustrated. Chilton’s specimen lacks a projection
on the posterior margin of the first article of antenna 1 and
represents an undescribed species of Cerapus. [details]

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