Species Allorbimorphus australiensis (Bourdon, 1976)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Anuropodione australiensis Bourdon, R. 1976. Les Bopyres de Porcellanes. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3, Zool. 359: 165-145 [233].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH ♂ plus 2♀, Cockburn Sound, WA (as Cockborn Sound, Port-Royal, Australie); ZMH ♂ plus 2♀, Cockburn Sound, WA (as Cockborn Sound, Port-Royal, Australie).

  Type host:

   Pisidia dispar (Stimpson) [PORELLANIDAE]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Pisidia dispar (Stimpson, 1858) [PORCELLANIDAE]), marine.

General References

Markham, J.C. 2010. The isopod parasites (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) of decapod Crustacea of Queensland, Australia, with descriptions of three new species. pp. 151-197 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3) [153] (re-illustration and new Australian record)

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