Species Dicoides brevidactylum (Hale, 1937)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dic brevidactylum Hale, H.M. 1937. Further notes on the Cumacea of South Australian reefs. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 61-74 [69, figs 6, 7] [Dicoides is masculine; specific name not corrected here].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA C2151 ♀ ovigerous, Sellicks Reef, Gulf St Vincent, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA C2152 1♂ (as allotype), Sellicks Reef, Gulf St Vincent, SA.

Generic Combinations

• Dicoides brevidactylum (Hale, 1937). —
  Gerken, S. 2001. The Gynodiastylidae (Crustacea: Cumacea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 59(1): 1-276 [28]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Soft bottom, from silt and stones, 1–120 m depth.

General References

Gerken, S. 2001. The Gynodiastylidae (Crustacea: Cumacea). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 59(1): 1-276 [27, fig. 92]

Hale, H.M. 1946. Australian Cumacea. No. 12 The family Diastylidae (Part 2). Gynodiastylis and related genera. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8: 357-444 [424] (taxonomy, as Dicoides brevidactyla)

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