Species Phronima colletti Bovallius, 1887

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• Phronima colletti Bovallius, C. 1887. Systematical list of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 11(16): 1-50 [25].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), South Atlantic Ocean.

  Secondary source:

   Stephensen, K. 1924. Hyperiidea - Amphipoda (Part 2: Paraphronimidae, Hyperiidae, Dairellidae, Phronimidae, Anchylomeridae). Report of the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908–1910 to the Mediterranean and adjacent Seas. Ser. A 12 4: 71-149 [128, 130].
• Phronima diogenes Chun, C. 1889. Bericht uber eine nach den Canarischen Inseln im Winter 1887/88 ausgefuhrte Reise. II. Abteilung. Beobachtungen uber die pelagishe Tiefenund Oberflachenfauna des östlichen atlanticshen Oceans. Sitzungsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1889: 519-553 pl. 3 [527, pl. 3 figs 5, 6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Canary Islands.
• Phronima gasti Dudich, E. 1926. Systematische und biologische Studienan den Phronima-Arten des Golfes von Neapel. Zoologischer Anzeiger 65(5/6): 117-139 [134, figs 1-3].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNH ♂, Gulf of Naples, Italy.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vinogradov, M.E., Volkov, A.F. & Semenova, T.N. 1982. Amphipoda — Hyperiidea of the World Ocean. Nauka Leningrad U.S.S.R. Opred. po Faune S.S.S.R 132: 1-491 [in Russian] [343]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, circumglobal (except central Pacific Ocean).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 mile fishing zone: SE oceanic, W oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, pelagic.

 

General References

Ball, E.E. 1977. Fine structure of the compound eyes of the midwater amphipod Phronima in relation to behaviour and habitat. Tissue and Cell 9(3): 521-536 [521]

Dakin, W.J. & Colefax, A.N. 1940. The plankton of the Australian coastal waters off New South Wales. Part I. Publications of the University of Sydney, Department of Zoology. Monograph 1: 1-215 [122]

Laval, P. 1970. Sur des Phronimidae de l'Océan Indien et de l'Océan Pacifique, avec la validation de Phronima bucephala Giles, 1887 comme espèce distincte de P. colletti Bov., 1887 (Crustacés Amphipodes). Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M. Serie Océanographique 8: 47-57 [47]

Répelin, R. 1970. Phronimidae du Bassin Indo-Australien (Amphipodes Hyperides). Cycle genital et repartition saisonniere. Relations quantitatives et ecologiques. Cahiers O.R.S.T.O.M. Serie Océanographique 8(2): 65-109 [95]

Shih, C.-T. 1969. The systematics and biology of the family Phronimidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Dana Reports 74: 1-100 [21] (in part)

Shih, C.-T. 1971. Phronimidae (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) of the South Pacific Ocean. Crustaceana 20(1): 25-45 [36]

Tranter, H.A. 1977. Further studies of plankton ecosystems in the Eastern Indian Ocean. VII. Ecology of the Amphipoda. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 28: 645-662 [650]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	29-Apr-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Jim Lowry (AM)
05-Aug-2022		22-Nov-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		16-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		09-Mar-2010	MODIFIED