Genus Rhabdosoma White, 1847

Museums

Regional Maps

• Rhabdosoma White, A. 1847. List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection of the British Museum. London : E. Newman Vol. 8 143 pp. [130] [without diagnosis; diagnosed by Adams & White, 1848].

  Type species:

   Oxycephalus armatus Milne Edwards, 1840 by monotypy.
• Macrocephalus Spence Bate, C. 1858. On some new genera and species of Crustacea Amphipoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 1: 361-362 [361].

  Type species:

   Macrocephalus longirostris Bate, 1858 by monotypy.
• Rhabdonectes Bovallius, C. 1887. Systematical list of the Amphipoda Hyperiidea. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 11(16): 1-50 [39] [unjustified nom. nov. for Rhabdosoma White, 1847 which Bovallius incorrectly thought was preoccupied].
• Pseudanurus Garbowski, T. 1895. Kosmos polski. Lemberg : Lwowie Vol. 21.

  Type species:

   Rhabdosoma brevicaudatum Stebbing, 1888 by monotypy.
• Xiphocephalus Bovallius, C. 1890. The Oxycephalids. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 3 15: 1-141 pls 1-7 [116] [nom. nov. for "Xyphicephale", an unavailable vernacular name attributed to Guérin-Méneville by Eydoux, F. & Souleyet, L.F.A. 1842. Crustacés. pp. 219–272 in Eydoux, F. (ed). Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette 'la Bonite', commandée par M. Vaillant. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 1 Pt 2].

  Type species (included species):

   Oxycephalus armatus Milne-Edwards, 1840; Rhabdosoma whitei Bate, 1862; Rhabdosoma brevicaudatum Stebbing, 1888; Xiphocephalus lilljeborgi Bovallius, 1890 (Oxycephalus armatus Milne-Edwards, 1840 was the only species included by Guérin-Méneville and could be regarded as the intended type of the genus).

  Secondary source:

   Eydoux, F. & Souleyet, L.F.A. 1842. Crustacés. pp. 219-272 in Eydoux, F. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette 'la Bonite', commandée par M. Vaillant. Zoologie. Paris : Bertrand Vol. 1(2).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pirlot, J.M. 1938. Les amphipodes de l'expédition du Siboga. Deuxième partie: les amphipodes gammarides, III: Les amphipodes littoraux. 2: Familles des Dexaminidae, Talitridae, Aoridae, Photidae, Ampithoidae, Corophiidae, Jassidae, Cheluridae et Podoceridae. Première Partie (Addendum). Les amphipodes hypérides. Familles des Lanceolidae, Cystisomatidae et Oxycephalidae. La sexualité chez Cystisoma Guérin Méneville. Siboga-Expéditie Report 33(F): 329-388 [372]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: N coast
  • 200 mile fishing zone: NE oceanic, SE oceanic

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA Latreille, 1816	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
05-Aug-2022	AMPHIPODA	01-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong (AM)
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